Analysis of Why do you strive for greatness, fool?
Stephen Crane 1871 – 1900
Why do you strive for greatness, fool?
Go pluck a bough and wear it.
It is as sufficing.
My Lord, there are certain barbarians
Who tilt their noses
As if the stars were flowers,
And Thy servant is lost among their shoe-buckles.
Fain would I have mine eyes even with their eyes.
Fool, go pluck a bough and wear it.
| Scheme | XAX XXXXX A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111101 1101011 1111 1111100100 11110 1101010 011011011110 11111110111 11101011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 321 |
| Words | 62 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 5, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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