This is an analysis of the poem The Lost Occasion that begins with:
Some die too late and some too soon,
At early morning, heat of noon,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbccddaa eeffddgghhcciiddddjjdd bXXdiiaaaajkXhccddddjjkddeejj bblljXaallmmddXXaXhhffhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,22,29,24,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 11010101 10110111 101100101 0101011011 01010111 11010101 01010111 01010100 110100101 01110100 11111111 010111001 11010101 11001101 11010111 01010101 010011101 01010101 10010100 01010100 110010111 11011101 10100101 11010101 11010111 010000101 11011101 01110101 11111111 01110101 11110111 110011101 11110101 11100110 01111100 11010101 11110101 01100101 11010101 01010100 11011111 11011101 01010101 11011100 11111000 01111101 10100101 01110101 10010111 101101101 01001101 101110001 11011101 11010101 01010100 11010101 11010111 11111011 110100101 001101101 11110101 01110111 10011101 01110101 01100101 11110101 11011101 01000101 01011110 11110101 11101001 11000101 11010111 11010100 01001100 010010100 101111101 11111101 01011100 01011101 11000101 11011101 110001001 01100101 11011111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 744
- Average number of words per stanza: 130
- Amount of lines: 86
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, the are repeated.
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- summary of The Lost Occasion;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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