Analysis of The Night Of Election
Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)
'O venerable patriot, I pray
Stand not here coatless; at the break of day
We'll know the grand result-and even now
The eastern sky is faintly touched with gray.
'It ill befits thine age's hoary crown
This rude environment of rogue and clown,
Who, as the lying bulletins appear,
With drunken cries incarnadine the town.
'But if with noble zeal you stay to note
The outcome of your patriotic vote
For Blaine, or Cleveland, and your native land,
Take-and God bless you!-take my overcoat.'
'Done, pard-and mighty white of you. And now
guess the country'll keep the trail somehow.
I aint allowed to vote, the Warden said,
But whacked my coat up on old Stanislow.'
Scheme | AABA CCXC DDXD BBXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1100010011 111110111 1101010101 0101110111 1101110101 1101001101 1101010001 1101101 1111011111 01110101 1111001101 101111110 1101011101 1011011 1101110101 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 651 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 128 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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