Analysis of A Guest
Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)
Death, are you well? I trust you have no cough
That's painful or in any way annoying
No kidney trouble that may carry you off,
Or heart disease to keep you from enjoying
Your meals-and ours. 'T were very sad indeed
To have to quit the busy life you lead.
You've been quite active lately for so old
A person, and not very strong-appearing.
I'm apprehensive, somehow, that my bold,
Bad brother gave you trouble in the spearing.
And my two friends-I fear, sir, that you ran
Quite hard for them, especially the man.
I crave your pardon: 'twas no fault of mine;
If you are overworked I'm sorry, very.
Come in, old man, and have a glass of wine.
What shall it be-Marsala, Port or Sherry?
What! just a mug of blood? That's funny grog
To ask a friend for, eh? Well, take it, hog!
Scheme | XAXAXX BABACC DEDEFF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111111 11010101010 11010111011 11011111010 110101010101 1111010111 1111010111 01001101010 10101111 11011100010 0111111111 111101001 1111011111 1110111010 1011010111 11110101110 1101111101 1101111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 762 |
Words | 148 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 195 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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