Analysis of The Past
Charles Harpur 1813 (Windsor) – 1868 (Australia)
The Past is flowing through my thoughts—
Flowing like a sea;
With all its billows dancing bright
Over what?—an undermight
Of darkling loss and destiny.
Still it floweth through my thoughts—
Floweth like a sea;
While of worn hope I ask alway,
Like an unsought cast-astray—
What can the future bring to me?
And hope herself admits: To thee
But a darkening scene—
Only slow days of care and doubt,
Only a dreary lengthening out,
Of what this later past hath been.
Scheme | ABCCBABXXB BXDDX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 01110111 10101 11110101 10111 1110100 111111 1101 1111111 111101 11010111 01010111 101001 10111101 100101001 11110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 521 |
Words | 85 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 5 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 182 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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