Analysis of Ambition's Trail
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919
If all the end of this continuous striving
Were simply to attain,
How poor would seem the planning and contriving
The endless urging and the hurried driving
Of body, heart and brain!
But ever in the wake of true achieving,
There shine this glowing trail –
Some other soul will be spurred on, conceiving,
New strength and hope, in its own power believing,
Because thou didst not fail.
Not thine alone the glory, nor the sorrow,
If thou doth miss the goal,
Undreamed of lives in many a far to-morrow
From thee their weakness or their force shall borrow –
On, on, ambitious soul.
Scheme | ABAAB ACAAC DEDDE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111010010 010101 111101001 01010001010 110101 11000111010 111101 11011111010 110101110010 011111 11010101010 111101 011101001110 1111011111 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 591 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 152 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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