'Carpe Diem,' Or Cop The Day
Franklin P. Adams 1881 (Chicago, Illinois) – 1960 (New York City, New York)
AD LEUCONOEN
Horace: Book I, Ode 13.
_'Tu ne quoesieris, scire nefas-'_
It is not right for you to know, so do not ask,
Leuconoe,
How long a life the gods may give or ever we
are gone away;
Try not to read the Final Page, the ending
colophonian,
Trust not the gypsy's tea-leaves, nor the
prophets Babylonian.
Better to have what is to come enshrouded
in obscurity
Than to be certain of the sort and length of
our futurity.
Why, even as I monologue on wisdom and
longevity
How Time has flown! Spear some of it!
The longest life is brevity.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | A X XBCXXBXBXCXAXCXC |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 544 |
Words | 104 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 16 |
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