Analysis of Slander

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



'All vices you've exhausted, friend;
So all the papers say.'

'Ah, what vile calumnies are penned!-
'Tis just the other way.'


Scheme AB AB
Poetic Form
Metre 11010101 110101 111111 110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 145
Words 28
Sentences 4
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 2, 2
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 46
Words per stanza (avg) 11
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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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