Analysis of The Foot-Hill Resort
Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)
Assembled in the parlor
Of the place of last resort,
The smiler and the snarler
And the guests of every sort
The elocution chap
With rhetoric on tap;
The mimic and the funny dog;
The social sponge; the money-hog;
Vulgarian and dude;
And the prude;
The adiposing dame
With pimply face aflame;
The kitten-playful virgin
Vergin' on to fifty years;
The solemn-looking sturgeon
Of a firm of auctioneers;
The widower flirtatious;
The widow all too gracious;
The man with a proboscis and a sepulcher beneath.
One assassin picks the banjo, and another picks his teeth.
Scheme | ABABCCDEFFGGHIJIKKLL |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (35%) |
Metre | 0100010 1011101 01001 00111001 00101 110011 01000101 01010101 101 001 011 11101 0101010 111101 0101010 1011101 0100010 0101110 011001000101 10101010010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 549 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 447 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 95 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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