This is an analysis of Why Do You Strive For Greatness, Fool? by Stephen Crane.
Why do you strive for greatness, fool?
Go pluck a bough and wear it.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaX bbbbbXa
- Stanza lengths: 3,7,
- Metre: 11111101 1101110 001100 1111100100 11110 1001010 111001011110 11111110011 11101110
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 9
Repeated words/phrases
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