Analysis of The King Of Bores
Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)
Abundant bores afflict this world, and some
Are bores of magnitude that-come and-no,
They're always coming, but they never go
Like funeral pageants, as they drone and hum
Their lurid nonsense like a muffled drum,
Or bagpipe's dread unnecessary flow.
But one superb tormentor I can show
Prince Fiddlefaddle, Duc de Feefawfum.
He the johndonkey is who, when I pen
Amorous verses in an idle mood
To nobody, or of her, reads them through
And, smirking, says he knows the lady; then
Calls me sly dog. I wish he understood
This tender sonnet's application too.
Scheme | ABBAABBACDECFE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101011101 111101101 111011101 11001011101 1101010101 11101001 110110111 11111 10111111 1001001101 11110111 0101110101 111111101 11010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 549 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 439 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 95 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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