Analysis of An Explanation
Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)
'I never yet exactly could determine
Just how it is that the judicial ermine
Is kept so safely from predacious vermin.'
'It is not so, my friend: though in a garret
'Tis kept in camphor, and you often air it,
The vermin will get into it and wear it.'
| Scheme | AAX BBB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010101010 11111001010 111101110 11111110010 1101011011 01011011011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 253 |
| Words | 53 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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