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.…

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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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Anadiplosis

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