Analysis of Tinker Dick
Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)
Good Parson Dickson preached, I'm told,
A sermon-ah, 'twas very old
And very, very, bald!
'Twas all about-I know not what
It was about, nor what 'twas not.
'A Screw Loose' it was called.
Whatever, Parson Dick, you say,
The world will get each blessed day
Still more and more askew,
And fall apart at last. Great snakes!
What skillful tinker ever takes
His tongue to turn a screw?
| Scheme | AABXXB CCDEED |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010111 01011101 010101 11011111 11011111 011111 1010111 0111111 110101 01011111 11010101 111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 376 |
| Words | 71 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 144 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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