Analysis of Imitation of The Olden Poets
Edward Lear 1812 (Holloway) – 1888 (Sanremo)
Time is a taper waning fast!
Use it, man, well whilst it doth last:
Lest burning downwards it consume away,
Before thou hast commenced the labour of the day.
Time is a pardon of a goodly soil!
Plenty shall crown thine honest toil:
But if uncultivated, rankest weeds
Shall choke the efforts of the rising seeds.
Time is a leasehold of uncertain date!
Granted to thee by everlasting fate.
Neglect not thou, ere thy short term expire,
To save thy soul from ever-burning fire.
| Scheme | AABB CCDD EEXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
| Metre | 11010101 11111111 1101010101 01110101101 1101010101 10111101 11111 1101010101 110110101 101110101 0111111101 11111101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 469 |
| Words | 86 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 124 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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