Analysis of To an Aged Cut-Up
Franklin P. Adams 1881 (Chicago, Illinois) – 1960 (New York City, New York)
Horace: Book III, Ode 15
"Uxor pauperis Ibyci,
Tandem nequitiæ fige modum tuæ--"
Dear Mrs. Ibycus, accept a little sound advice,
Your manners and your speech are overbold;
To chase around the sporty way you do is far from nice;
Believe me, darling, you are growing old.
Now Pholoë may fool around (she dances like a doe!)
A débutante has got to think of men;
But you were twenty-seven over thirty years ago--
You ought to be asleep at half-past ten.
O Chloris, cut the ragging and the roses and the rum--
Delete the drink, or better, chop the booze!
Go buy a skein of yarn and make the knitting needles hum,
And imitate the art of Sister Suse.
Scheme | A BX BABX CDCD EBEB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111 111 101111 110101010101 11001111 11010101111111 0111011101 111101110101 011111111 11010101010101 1111011111 1101010010001 0101110101 11011101010101 010011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 660 |
Words | 124 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 98 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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