Analysis of Piety

Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)



The pig is taught by sermons and epistles
     To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles.


Scheme AA
Poetic Form Couplet 
Metre 011111001 11011111010
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 113
Words 21
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 2
Lines Amount 2
Letters per line (avg) 37
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 73
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist. more…

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