This is an analysis of the poem At Long Last that begins with:
Late, late the prize is drawn, the goal attained,
The Heart's Desire fulfilled, Love's guerdon gained.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddddee ffdddd gghhff eeiiee eXaadd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101010101 01010011101 11011010101 0101011101 0101010111 0101 110111111001 0111010101 11001011111 1101111111 1011011011 1111 1111010100 01001011101 1111010001 1111110111 10110100101 1110 11001110101 00110010101 0011110101 1111111101 11010101110 11010 1101110101 1111000111 1101010101 0111001111 0011011101 1101 1101010111 1111111100 0111011101 1101110111 011100100101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, end, their, youth, one are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, to, 't'is are repeated.
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- summary of At Long Last;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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