This is an analysis of Fly Not Yet by Thomas Moore.

Fly not yet, 'tis just the hour,
When pleasure, like the midnight flower…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcddeeFccc ddccghheeFiig
  • Stanza lengths: 13,13,
  • Metre: 11111010 110101110 11010101 01011101 111101 110111001 11010101 111101010 10111010 1111 1110101 10011111 010111 1110111 01011101 11011101 11110101 011111 11110111 11011101 110101010 111010110 1111 1010101 11110101 111101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 26

Repeated words/phrases

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