Analysis of Now!
Robert Browning 1812 (Camberwell) – 1889 (Venice)
Out of your whole life give but a moment!
All of your life that has gone before,
All to come after it, -- so you ignore,
So you make perfect the present, condense,
In a rapture of rage, for perfection's endowment,
Thought and feeling and soul and sense,
Merged in a moment which gives me at last
You around me for once, you beneath me, above me --
Me, sure that, despite of time future, time past,
This tick of life-time's one moment you love me!
How long such suspension may linger? Ah, Sweet,
The moment eternal -- just that and no more --
When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core,
While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111010 111111101 1111011101 1110101001 00101111010 10100101 1001011111 1011111011011 11101111011 11111110111 11101011011 01001011011 11111101 11111011011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 637 |
Words | 124 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 485 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 122 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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