This is an analysis of the poem Ambition And Art that begins with:
Ambition
I am the maid of the lustrous eyes ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababa cdcd efef ghgh Xfef dXdi afaf jgjg cbcb kkkX kkhkh kgkg bbbb ldld kkXkXifif
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010 110100101 01010 1010111101 11010 1010100101 11011 010100101 11111 10101010101 01110 1111100101 11110 010110101 11010 111111111 11110 11101101110 01010 0010110101 11110 1110100101 01100 1010110101 11110 101110101 01010 1111110101 01110 1010110101 11110 1110110101 11110 1111110101 01010 1100110101 01110 1011110101 11010 1110110101 1111000 1 111110101 11110 10010111 11110 1111100111 01010 0010110101 11110 1010100111 11111 1011011001 11011 1010100101 01011 1010100101 01011 1001100101 11010 1111100101 11010 1010100101 11010 1010100101 11110
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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