This is an analysis of Ambition by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.
I had ambition once. Like Solomon
I asked for wisdom, deeming wisdom fair,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdbdcacaee
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1101011100 1111010101 1011010101 0101001101 1101111100 1011110100 1101011111 1101110111 11011011010 0111011101 11110011010 1111110111 1101010111 1111010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
and, my
Anaphora
i, and