This is an analysis of Advice To An Old Man Of Sixty Three About To Marry A Girle Of Sixteen by Thomas Flatman.
Now fie upon him! what is Man,
Whose life at best is but a span?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaaXXbb X ccXXddccee
- Stanza lengths: 10,1,10,
- Metre: 11011101 11110101 10110101 10011101 11010101 11011101 11110111 11110111 1001010101 1101110111 1 10010111 11111111 11010110 01010100 11010101 11111100 01011101 11011111 0111010101 1111011101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 21
