Ambition Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDCCCCCECEFEFG FGHGHH| Unless it was that day I never knew | A |
| Ambition After a night of frost before | B |
| The March sun brightened and the South west blew | A |
| Jackdaws began to shout and float and soar | B |
| Already and one was racing straight and high | C |
| Alone shouting like a black warrior | D |
| Challenges and menaces to the wide sky | C |
| With loud long laughter then a woodpecker | D |
| Ridiculed the sadness of the owl's last cry | C |
| And through the valley where all the folk astir | C |
| Made only plumes of pearly smoke to tower | C |
| Over dark trees and white meadows happier | C |
| Than was Elysium in that happy hour | C |
| A train that roared along raised after it | E |
| And carried with it a motionless white bower | C |
| Of purest cloud from end to end close knit | E |
| So fair it touched the roar with silence Time | F |
| Was powerless while that lasted I could sit | E |
| And think I had made the loveliness of prime | F |
| Breathed its life into it and were its lord | G |
| And no mind lived save this 'twixt clouds and rime | F |
| Omnipotent was I nor even deplored | G |
| That I did nothing But the end fell like a bell | H |
| The bower was scattered far off the train roared | G |
| But if this was ambition I cannot tell | H |
| What 'twas ambition for I know not well | H |
Edward Thomas
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