Analysis of To Oscar Wilde
Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)
Because from Folly's lips you got
Some babbled mandate to subdue
The realm of Common Sense, and you
Made promise and considered not
Because you strike a random blow
At what you do not understand,
And beckon with a friendly hand
To something that you do not know,
I hold no speech of your desert,
Nor answer with porrected shield
The wooden weapon that you wield,
But meet you with a cast of dirt.
Dispute with such a thing as you
Twin show to the two-headed calf?
Why, sir, if I repress my laugh,
'T is more than half the world can do.
Scheme | ABBA CDDC EFFE BGGB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 0111111 1101101 01110101 11000101 01110101 1111101 01010101 11011111 11111110 110111 01010111 11110111 01110111 11101101 11110111 111110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 528 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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