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…

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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