Analysis of To enjoy the time
Robert Herrick 1591 (London) – 1674 (Dean Prior)
While fates permit us, let's be merry;
Pass all we must the fatal ferry;
And this our life, too, whirls away,
With the rotation of the day.
Scheme | AABB |
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Poetic Form | Balliol rhyme Quatrain |
Metre | 110111110 111101010 011011101 10010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 144 |
Words | 29 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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