This is an analysis of Imitation Of The Olden Poets by Edward Lear.
Time is a taper waning fast!
Use it, man, well whilst it doth last:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd aaXX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
- Metre: 10010101 10111011 1101000101 011101011001 1001000101 10111101 1010000101 1101000101 1001100101 1001110101 0111111101 01110101010
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
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