Analysis of Visions Of Sin

Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)



KRASLAJORSK, SIBERIA, March 29.

'My eyes are better, and I shall travel slowly toward home.'
DANENHOWER.

From the regions of the Night,
Coming with recovered sight
From the spell of darkness free,
What will Danenhower see?

He will see when he arrives,
Doctors taking human lives.
He will see a learned judge
Whose decision will not budge
Till both litigants are fleeced
And his palm is duly greased.
Lawyers he will see who fight
Day by day and night by night;
Never both upon a side,
Though their fees they still divide.
Preachers he will see who teach
That it is divine to preach
That they fan a sacred fire
And are worthy of their hire.
He will see a trusted wife

(Pride of some good husband's life)
Enter at a certain door
And-but he will see no more.
He will see Good Templars reel
See a prosecutor steal,
And a father beat his child.
He'll perhaps see Oscar Wilde.

From the regions of the Night
Coming with recovered sight
From the bliss of blindness free,
That's what Danenhower'll see.


Scheme x xa BBac xxddeebbffggaah haaiijj BBac
Poetic Form
Metre 101001 111100111010011 1 1010101 1010101 1011101 1111 1111101 1010101 111011 1010111 1110011 0111101 1011111 1110111 1010101 1111101 1011111 1110111 11101010 01101110 1110101 1111101 1010101 0111111 1111101 101001 0010111 1011101 1010101 1010101 1011101 1111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 974
Words 184
Sentences 14
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 1, 2, 4, 15, 7, 4
Lines Amount 33
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 131
Words per stanza (avg) 30
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist. more…

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