This is an analysis of On The Hurry Of This Time by Henry Austin Dobson.
With slower pen men used to write,
Of old, when 'letters' were 'polite';…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbbX aabCXaabbaC
- Stanza lengths: 5,11,
- Metre: 01011101 011100100 01010101 11010101 11010110 11110101 11111101 11011111 0101 110101011 11110111 11111101 11011101 11111111 0101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 15
