Analysis of Uncoloneled
Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)
Though war-signs fail in time of peace, they say,
Two awful portents gloom the public mind:
All Mexico is arming for the fray
And Colonel Mark McDonald has resigned!
We know not by what instinct he divined
The coming trouble-may be, like the steed
Described by Job, he smelled the fight afar.
Howe'er it be, he left, and for that deed
Is an aspirant to the G.A.R.
When cannon flame along the Rio Grande
A citizen's commission will be handy.
| Scheme | ABABBCDCDEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111011111 110110101 110110101 0101010101 111111011 0101011101 0111110101 1011110111 11100101 1101010101 01000101110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 438 |
| Words | 84 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 11 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 344 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 80 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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