Analysis of To an Aged Cut-Up, II
Franklin P. Adams 1881 (Chicago, Illinois) – 1960 (New York City, New York)
Chloris lay off the flapper stuff;
What's fit for Pholoë, a fluff,
Is not for Ibycus's wife--
A woman at your time of life!
Ignore, old dame, such pleasures as
The shimmy and "the Bacchus Jazz";
Your presence with the maidens jars--
You are the cloud that dims the stars.
Your daughter Pholoë may stay
Out nights on the Appian Way;
her love for Nothus, as you know,
Makes her as playful as a doe.
No jazz for you, no jars of wine,
No rose that blooms incarnadine.
For one thing only you are fit:
Buy some Lucerian wool--and knit!
| Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFF XFGG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 10110101 111101 11111 01011111 01111101 01000101 11010101 11011101 110111 11101001 0111111 10110101 11111111 11111 11110111 111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 536 |
| Words | 102 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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