Analysis of Hospitality

Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)



Why ask me, Gastrogogue, to dine
(Unless to praise your rascal wine)
Yet never ask some luckless sinner
Who needs, as I do not, a dinner?


Scheme AABB
Poetic Form Balliol rhyme 
Quatrain 
Metre 111111 01111101 110111010 111111010
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 142
Words 28
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 105
Words per stanza (avg) 26
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist. more…

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