This is an analysis of To Youth by Robert Herrick.

Drink wine, and live here blitheful while ye may;
The morrow's life too late is; Live to-day.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aa
  • Stanza lengths: 2,
  • Metre: 11111100111 0101110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 2