This is an analysis of Quick! We Have But A Second by Thomas Moore.
Quick! we have but a second,
Fill round the cup while you may;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aBaBcdcdABAB efefbbbbAbAB
- Stanza lengths: 12,12,
- Metre: 1111010 1101111 1101110 1110101 1010110 111101 11110010 1100101 11111010 1101111 1101110 1110101 1011010 111101 1111110 1110101 111101 0101111 10111111 110101 11111010 1111111 1101110 1110101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 24