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!


Scheme ABBCACDEDEFBBF
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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