Analysis of The Tyme Of Youthe



The tyme of youthe is to be spent;
But vice in it shuld be forfent.

Pastymes ther be I nought treulye
Whych one may use, and vice denye;

And they be plesant to God and man,
Those shuld we covit wyn who can;

As featys of armys, and suche other
Wherby actyvenesse oon may utter.

Comparysons in them may lawfully be sett,
For therby corage is suerly owt fett:

Vertue it is then youth for to spend
In goode dysporttys whych it dothe fend.


Scheme AA BB CC DD AX EE
Poetic Form
Metre 01111111 1101111 111111 1111011 01111101 1111111 11110110 111110 101110011 1111111 11111111 0111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 436
Words 86
Sentences 4
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 57
Words per stanza (avg) 14
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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