Analysis of Thersites
Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)
So, in the Sunday papers _you_, Del Mar,
Damn, all great Englishmen in English speech?
I am no Englishman, but in my reach
A rogue shall never rail where heroes are.
You are the man, if I mistake you not,
Who lately with a supplicating twitch
Plucked at the pockets of the London rich
And paid your share-engraver all you got.
Because that you have greatly lied, because
You libel nations, and because no hand
Of officer is raised to bid you stand,
And falsehood is unpunished of the laws,
I stand here in a public place to mark
With level finger where you part the crowd
I stand to name you and to cry aloud:
'Behold mendacity's great hierarch!'
Scheme | ABBA CDDC EFFE XGGB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 100110111 111100101 1111001011 0111011101 1101110111 1101011 1101010101 0111010111 0111110101 1101000111 1100111111 011010101 1110010111 1101011101 1111101101 01111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 639 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 127 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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