This is an analysis of At This Moment by David Ignatow.
I'm very pleased to be a body. Can there be someone without a body?
As you hold mine I feel firmly assured that bodies are the right thing…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbb XcXXXXca
- Stanza lengths: 4,8,
- Metre: 0101000101101101010 11111110011101011 1111100100100111110 010000110101100001010 11101011111101001 010011100111011101 1101101101011001001 1111111011100111 100101010011101101 0101111111111111 1011011111001010 1011101101111100
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
body, i, it, you, to