Analysis of The Unfallen Brave
Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)
Not all in sorrow and in tears,
To pay of gratitude's arrears
The yearly sum
Not prompted, wholly by the pride
Of those for whom their friends have died,
To-day we come.
Another aim we have in view
Than for the buried boys in blue
To dropp a tear:
Memorial Day revives the chin
Of Barnes, and Salomon chimes in
That's why we're here.
And when in after-ages they
Shall pass, like mortal men, away,
Their war-song sung,
Then fame will tell the tale anew
Of how intrepidly they drew
The deadly tongue.
Then cull white lilies for the graves
Of Liberty's loquacious braves,
And roses red.
Those represent their livers, these
The blood that in unmeasured seas
They did not shed.
Scheme | XXABBA CCXDDX EEFCCF GGHIIH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010001 111101 0101 11010101 11111111 1111 01011101 11010101 1101 010010101 11010010 1111 01010101 11110101 1111 11110101 11010011 0101 11110101 11000101 0101 1011101 011011 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 657 |
Words | 124 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 132 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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