Analysis of All My Past Life...
Lord John Wilmot 1647 (Ditchley, Oxfordshire) – 1680 (Woodstock, Oxfordshire)
All my past life is mine no more,
The flying hours are gone,
Like transitory dreams given o'er,
Whose images are kept in store
By memory alone.
What ever is to come is not,
How can it then be mine?
The present moment's all my lot,
And that as fast as it is got,
Phyllis, is wholly thine.
Then talk not of inconstancy,
False hearts, and broken vows,
Ii, by miracle, can be,
This live-long minute true to thee,
'Tis all that heaven allows.
| Scheme | AXXAX BCBBC DEDDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111111 0101011 110011010 11001101 110001 11011111 111111 01010111 01111111 101101 11110100 110101 1110011 11110111 1111001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 431 |
| Words | 86 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 111 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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