This is an analysis of the poem Too Late that begins with:
COULD ye come back to me, Douglas, Douglas,
In the old likeness that I knew, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaB XbXB XbXB abXbXabaB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011010 00110111 11011011010 10101011 100101111 1111110101 111111110 10101011 101101111 110101101 1110111010 10101011 1101100110 11100101 11101101111 111101011 1111011010 101001011 11111111110 10101011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; douglas, you are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word true at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase douglas connects the lines.
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