Analysis of The Perfect Present
Arthur Henry Adams 1872 (Lawrence) – 1936 (Sydney, New South Wales)
SO I have kissed you! And this hour is mine.
Its light along the level future lasts,
It crowns a drab eternity of Pasts!
Here soul and soul have crossed the border-line
Of self, and merged. No years can e'er untwine
This hour from us! What though to-morrow casts
The memory out, and your cold glance contrasts
With this day's rich red lips, need I repine?
No. I have kissed you! And the brief warm flower
Born of our lips perfumes eternity.
From the long loneliness that silently
Stretches behind, before, I am content
To cull this blossom of one perfect hour—
To snatch one star from Time's deep firmament!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111011011 1101010101 1101010011 1101110101 1101111101 11011111101 01001011110 111111111 11111001110 11101010100 1011001100 1001011110 11110110110 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 632 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 476 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 110 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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