Analysis of Carpe Diem
William Shakespeare 1564 (Stratford-upon-Avon) – 1616 (Stratford-upon-Avon)
O mistress mine, where are you roaming?
O stay and hear! your true-love's coming
That can sing both high and low;
Trip no further, pretty sweeting,
Journey's end in lovers' meeting--
Every wise man's son doth know.
What is love? 'tis not hereafter;
Present mirth hath present laughter;
What's to come is still unsure:
In delay there lies no plenty,--
Then come kiss me, Sweet and twenty,
Youth's a stuff will not endure.
Scheme | AABAAB CCDEED |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111110 110111110 1111101 11101010 1101010 10011111 11111010 10111010 1111101 00111110 11111010 1011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 428 |
Words | 76 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 161 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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