Analysis of Ambition
Robert loughran 1962 (Ireland)
One reaction feeds another,
a circle of strife.
Expanding ever outwards,
a poor substitute for life.
More ignorance concretizes to fear,
more fodder for the corrupters.
To play their brutal game,
of us against the others.
A race to hell
a burning ambition
to destroy all our futures
in the name of their traditions
In denial of intelligence,
the worst of the crop,
have murdered and lied,
their way to the top.
Scheme | XABA XBXC XXCX XDXD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 10101010 01011 0101010 011011 1100111 110101 111101 1101010 0111 010010 10111010 00111010 001010100 01101 11001 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 416 |
Words | 87 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
About this poem
about the effect of the fear driven human mind on society
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