This is an analysis of To Live Freely by Robert Herrick.

Let's live in haste; use pleasures while we may;
Could life return, 'twould never lose a day.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aa
  • Stanza lengths: 2,
  • Metre: 1101110111 1101110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 2