Analysis of A Fair Division
Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)
Another Irish landlord gone to grass,
Slain by the bullets of the tenant class!
Pray, good agrarians, what wrong requires
Such foul redress? Between you and the squires
All Ireland's parted with an even hand
For you have all the ire, they all the land.
| Scheme | AABBCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Sestain |
| Metre | 010101111 1101010101 11111010 11010110010 1101011101 1111011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 255 |
| Words | 47 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 200 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 30, 2023
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