Analysis of The Committee On Public Morals
Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)
The Senate met in Sacramento city;
On public morals it had no committee
Though greatly these abounded. Soon the quiet
Was broken by the Senators in riot.
Now, at the end of their contagious quarrels,
There's a committee but no public morals.
| Scheme | AABBCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Sestain |
| Metre | 0101001010 11010111010 11010101010 11010100010 11011101010 10010111010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 244 |
| Words | 44 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 193 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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