Analysis of In Me, Past, Present, Future meet
Siegfried Sassoon 1886 (Matfield) – 1967 (Heytesbury)
In me, past, present, future meet
To hold long chiding conference.
My lusts usurp the present tense
And strangle Reason in his seat.
My loves leap through the future’s fence
To dance with dream-enfranchised feet.
In me the cave-man clasps the seer,
And garlanded Apollo goes
Chanting to Abraham’s deaf ear.
In me the tiger sniffs the rose.
Look in my heart, kind friends, and tremble,
Since there your elements assemble.
| Scheme | AXBABA CDCDEE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01110101 11110100 1110101 01010011 11110101 1111011 01011101 010101 1011011 01010101 101111010 111100010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 421 |
| Words | 73 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 167 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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