Analysis of 'Carpe Diem,' Or Cop The Day
Franklin P. Adams 1881 (Chicago, Illinois) – 1960 (New York City, New York)
Horace: Book I, Ode 13.
_'Tu ne quoesieris, scire nefas-'_
It is not right for you to know, so do not ask,
Leuconoe,
How long a life the gods may give or ever we
are gone away;
Try not to read the Final Page, the ending
colophonian,
Trust not the gypsy's tea-leaves, nor the
prophets Babylonian.
Better to have what is to come enshrouded
in obscurity
Than to be certain of the sort and length of
our futurity.
Why, even as I monologue on wisdom and
longevity
How Time has flown! Spear some of it!
The longest life is brevity.
| Scheme | A X XBCXXBXBXCXAXCXC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10111 111111 111111111111 1 110101111101 1101 11110101010 1 11011110 100100 10111111010 00100 11110101011 101 11011101100 0100 11111111 01011100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 544 |
| Words | 104 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 16 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 135 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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