This is an analysis of Past And Future by John Kenyon.
Our Past—how strangely swift! Its years—mere months!
Months—clipped to weeks! and longest day—an hour!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcdefgfhi jXXXbkeklmhghXll fdffncdlnnlhchlX hhmdcdloff ljeihlfg pXoaXXlaaqhehXqqm alflhablXmXclcXqX ehqalellXapidhX iXbhXeidaafpainc fmighhhadeXdqhqfi dllX
- Stanza lengths: 10,16,16,10,8,17,17,15,16,17,4,
- Metre: 1111010011 11011101110 1111010101 010011101110 10010111111 01011001101 1101110101 0101011001 1101011111 1101110111 0011011101 10101111010 1111101100 0111001101 11110101010 0111110101 10011111111 0101111101 10011001111 0111110101 11001101101 1011111101 1101111111 1111010111 11011111111 1101010111 1111010101 1101010111 0101010101 1011010001 100100111010 01111101000 11001011001 1101011101 11001111111 110111010100 1101011101 1111000111 1100010101 1101010110 1101010011 10110011010 1111011101 1101011111 0101110101 1111111101 1111011101 1111010111 10011110101 11011010101 1101110001 1011111101 1101111111 01111000101 1101010101 0111110101 1101010101 11010111111 1101010101 1111111111 11011101110 1101110001 0001010111 010111010101 11100 1111001 1101100111 11011101001 1110001101 1011010111 1100010010 1101110011 1111111101 1100111110 1110001101 1111111101 1111111101 10110011101 01010100101 011101 1101 0111010111 1101110001 11011101010 01011111111 10010110000 0111110111 1011010100 1110110101 1111010101 11111001010 011100101010 1011110011 11110111111 0101010101 0111010101 011110101101 1110110011 1111011101 0111111110 1111011101 11000111001 01110111110 0101010101 10010011110 01010101001 1110011101 00111101001 1111111010 1100100101 0101111110 1111110100 1111011101 1111011111 1111011101 1101010111 11010111111 1100010101 1101110111 10110101110 1111010100 0111010111 011111 1111 1100110101 1111110101 0101111101 1111010101 0101010101 0111011101 1111011101 1011000101 11110010101 1111111111 1101110011 1101010110 1111111111 1101010111 1001010101 1101110101 1110010101 01110101001 11110011111 1011111101 1111110111 1100110010
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 146
Repeated words/phrases
they, and, or, to, all, for, too
Anaphora
or, and, but, they
Anadiplosis
months