Analysis of To live freely
Robert Herrick 1591 (London) – 1674 (Dean Prior)
Let's live in haste; use pleasures while we may;
Could life return, 'twould never lose a day.
Scheme | AA |
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Poetic Form | Couplet |
Metre | 1101110111 1101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 100 |
Words | 19 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 2 |
Lines Amount | 2 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 71 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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