Analysis of The Dead King
Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)
Hawaii's King resigned his breath
Our Legislature guffawed.
The awful dignity of death
Not any single rough awed.
But when our Legislators die
All Kings, Queens, Jacks and Aces cry.
| Scheme | ABABBC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0110111 101001 01010011 1101011 11101001 11110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 184 |
| Words | 32 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 146 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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