Analysis of Ambition cannot find him
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Ambition cannot find him.
Affection doesn't know
How many leagues of nowhere
Lie between them now.
Yesterday, undistinguished!
Eminent Today
For our mutual hone, Immortality!
| Scheme | XXXX XXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0101011 010101 110111 10111 10010 10001 11010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 176 |
| Words | 27 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 72 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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