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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