Analysis of Ambition
Ambition is a solid rock,
We smash our hopes against,
The captain of our ship,
Runs us aground.
| Scheme | ABCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01010101 1110101 0101101 1101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 103 |
| Words | 21 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 74 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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A short poem about the nature of ambition.
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