Analysis of Novum Organum
Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)
In Bacon see the culminating prime
Of Anglo-Saxon intellect and crime.
He dies and Nature, settling his affairs,
Parts his endowments among us, his heirs:
To every one a pinch of brain for seed,
And, to develop it, a pinch of greed.
Each thrifty heir, to make the gift suffice,
Buries the talent to manure the vice.
| Scheme | AABBCCDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010101001 110101001 11010100101 1101001111 11001011111 0101010111 1101110101 1001010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 316 |
| Words | 59 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 246 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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