Analysis of To An Aspirant
Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)
What! you a Senator-you, Mike de Young?
Still reeking of the gutter whence you sprung?
Sir, if all Senators were such as you,
Their hands so crimson and so slender, too,
(Shaped to the pocket for commercial work,
For literary, fitted to the dirk)
So black their hearts, so lily-white their livers,
The toga's touch would give a man the shivers.
| Scheme | AABBCCDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101001111 1101010111 1111000111 1111001101 1101010101 110010101 11111101110 0111101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 345 |
| Words | 63 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 266 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 61 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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