Analysis of Arbor Day
Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)
Hasten, children, black and white
Celebrate the yearly rite.
Every pupil plant a tree:
It will grow some day to be
Big and strong enough to bear
A School Director hanging there.
| Scheme | AABBCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Sestain |
| Metre | 1010101 100101 10010101 1111111 1010111 01010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 180 |
| Words | 34 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 141 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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