Analysis of Horace to Leuconoë
Edwin Arlington Robinson 1869 – 1935
I pray you not, Leuconoë, to pore
With unpermitted eyes on what may be
Appointed by the gods for you and me,
Nor on Chaldean figures any more.
’T were infinitely better to implore
The present only:—whether Jove decree
More winters yet to come, or whether he
Make even this, whose hard, wave-eaten shore
Shatters the Tuscan seas to-day, the last—
Be wise withal, and rack your wine, nor fill
Your bosom with large hopes; for while I sing,
The envious close of time is narrowing;—
So seize the day, or ever it be past,
And let the morrow come for what it will.
Scheme | ABBAABBA CDEECD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111 1111111 0101011101 11110101 10100010101 0101010101 1101111101 1101111101 1001011101 111011111 1101111111 01001111100 1101110111 0101011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 573 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 216 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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