This is an analysis of the poem Ambition that begins with:

Unless it was that day I never knew
Ambition. After a night of frost, before...

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdcXdddedefefgXghghh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101111101 01010010101 0111010111 1001011111 01011110111 0110101100 10011000011 0111010110 10101000111 11010110110 11010101010 10111111100 110100011010 0111011100 110000100110 0101010111 1101010101 11001110111 111110100001 1010001001 1111101111 01001111001 110101011101 01011011011 10010101101 1101011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1133
  • Average number of words per stanza: 211
  • Amount of lines: 26
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

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  • summary of Ambition;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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