{
 "id": "ambrose-bierce/a-partial-eclipse",
 "title": "A Partial Eclipse",
 "ordinal": null,
 "subtitle": null,
 "poet": "Ambrose Bierce",
 "poet_slug": "ambrose-bierce",
 "language": "en",
 "book": "The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume V",
 "book_slug": "collected-works-v",
 "book_kind": "volume",
 "sequence": 61,
 "container": "Black Beetles in Amber",
 "epigraph": null,
 "first_published": {
  "year": 1911,
  "venue": "The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume V (1911)",
  "note": "Taken from Volume V of the Neale collected edition (copyright 1911). That is the printing this text comes from, not the poem's first appearance: the volume's own preface states that most of its verses are republished from newspapers and periodicals of the Pacific Coast, and which of them printed this poem first has not been established here.",
  "uncertain": true,
  "sources": [
   "https://archive.org/details/collectedworksof05bierrich"
  ]
 },
 "source": {
  "kind": "standard-ebooks",
  "repo": "standardebooks/ambrose-bierce_poetry",
  "file": "black-beetles-in-amber.xhtml",
  "upstream": [
   "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4793",
   "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12658",
   "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12977",
   "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15599",
   "https://archive.org/details/collectedworksof04bierrich",
   "https://archive.org/details/collectedworksof05bierrich",
   "https://archive.org/details/collectedworksof08bierrich",
   "https://archive.org/details/shapesofclay00bier",
   "https://archive.org/details/blackbeetlesinam00bier",
   "https://archive.org/details/literarycalifor05mighgoog",
   "https://archive.org/details/cali07webb"
  ],
  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
 },
 "verification": {
  "level": "structural-only",
  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
 },
 "stats": {
  "n_lines": 12,
  "n_stanzas": 1,
  "n_parts": 0,
  "longest_line_chars": 48,
  "max_indent": 0
 },
 "site_ready": true,
 "parts": [],
 "stanzas": [
  [
   {
    "text": "A Person of Consequence rose from the dead,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And to him a curious citizen said:",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "“Beg pardon, but why is your glorious name",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Not blazoned in gold on the Temple of Fame?”",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "“I truly don’t know,” said the spook in reply,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "“And was just on the point of asking you why",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Those other names are.” And the risen one made",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "A wink that threw half of the land into shade,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Sent half of the hens to their perches aloof,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And half of the cats to the peak of a roof,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Half-crazed the foreseer of eclipses, and fooled",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "The funny left lobe of the brain of Miss Gould.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ]
 ]
}