Analysis of The Mad Philosopher
Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)
The flabby wine-skin of his brain
Yields to some pathologic strain,
And voids from its unstored abysm
The driblet of an aphorism.
| Scheme | AABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Balliol rhyme Quatrain |
| Metre | 01011111 11111 011111 0111100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 134 |
| Words | 24 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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