Analysis of Sires And Sons
Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)
Wild wanton Luxury lays waste the land
With difficulty tilled by Thrift's hard hand!
Then dies the State!-and, in its carcass found,
The millionaires, all maggot-like, abound.
Alas! was it for this that Warren died,
And Arnold sold himself to t' other side,
Stark piled at Bennington his British dead,
And Gates at Camden, Lee at Monmouth, fled?
For this that Perry did the foeman fleece,
And Hull surrender to preserve the peace?
Degenerate countrymen, renounce, I pray,
The slothful ease, the luxury, the gay
And gallant trappings of this idle life,
And be more fit for one another's wife.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101001101 1100011111 1101001101 001110101 0111111101 01010111101 1111001101 0111011101 111101011 0101010101 01001000111 011010001 0101011101 0111110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 586 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 464 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 100 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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