Analysis of The Lord's Prayer On A Coin
Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)
Upon this quarter-eagle's leveled face,
The Lord's Prayer, legibly inscribed, I trace.
'Our Father which'-the pronoun there is funny,
And shows the scribe to have addressed the money
'Which art in Heaven'-an error this, no doubt:
The preposition should be stricken out.
Needless to quote; I only have designed
To praise the frankness of the pious mind
Which thought it natural and right to join,
With rare significancy, prayer and coin.
| Scheme | AABBCCDDEE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
| Metre | 0111010101 01110111 101010101110 01011101010 1101110111 0111101 1011110101 1101010101 1111000111 111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 435 |
| Words | 73 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 345 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 71 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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