Analysis of One Judge
Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)
Wallace, created on a noble plan
To show us that a Judge can be a Man;
Through moral mire exhaling mortal stench
God-guided sweet and foot-clean to the Bench;
In salutation here and sign I lift
A hand as free as yours from lawless thrift,
A heart-ah, would I truly could proclaim
My bosom lighted with so pure a flame!
Alas, not love of justice moves my pen
To praise, or to condemn, my fellow men.
Good will and ill its busy point incite:
I do but gratify them when I write.
In palliation, though, I'd humbly state,
I love the righteous and the wicked hate.
So, sir, although we differ we agree,
Our work alike from persecution free,
And Heaven, approving you, consents to me.
Take, therefore, from this not all useless hand
The crown of honor-not in all the land
One honest man dissenting from the choice,
Nor in approval one Fred. Crocker's voice!
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHHIIJJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001010101 1111011101 11011101 1101011101 0110111 0111111101 0111110101 1101011101 0111110111 1111011101 1101110101 111101111 0111101 1101000101 111110101 1010110101 01001010111 111111101 0111010101 1101010101 1001011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 838 |
Words | 158 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 21 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 661 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 156 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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