Analysis of The Opposing Sex
Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)
The Widows of Ashur
Are loud in their wailing:
'No longer the 'masher'
Sees Widows of Ashur!'
So each is a lasher
Of Man's smallest failing.
The Widows of Ashur
Are loud in their wailing.
The Cave of Adullam,
That home of reviling
No wooing can gull 'em
In Cave of Adullam.
No angel can lull 'em
To cease their defiling
The Cave of Adullam,
That home of reviling.
At men they are cursing
The Widows of Ashur;
Themselves, too, for nursing
The men they are cursing.
The praise they're rehearsing
Of every slasher
At men. _They_ are cursing
The Widows of Ashur.
Scheme | ABaaabAB CBcccbCB bAbbbabA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010110 110110 11001 110110 111010 111010 010110 110110 0111 1111 110111 0111 110111 1111 0111 1111 111110 010110 011110 011110 011010 110010 111110 010110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 543 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 145 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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