This is an analysis of the poem Too Late that begins with:
WHEN Love, sweet Love, was tangled in my snare
I clipped his wings, and dressed his cage with flowers, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaXbba cbdcbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111110011 11011101010 11110111010 1111110101 1111101010 01010101010 101011101010 1101110111 1101011101 1111010101 11010010001 10110110101 1011010101 1011111111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 332
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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