Analysis of Dennis Kearney
Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)
Your influence, my friend, has gathered head
To east and west its tides encroaching spread.
There'll be, on all God's foot-stool, when they meet,
No clean spot left for God to set His feet.
| Scheme | AABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1100111101 1101110101 10111111111 1111111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 194 |
| Words | 36 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 146 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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