This is an analysis of the poem Too Late that begins with:
Had we but met in other days,
Had we but loved in other ways, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb aacc ddaa bbbb eeff eebb gghh bbbb iiaaXiiaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 11110101 01011111 111111 01110100 11011101 111111110 010010010 110101001 110010111 11111111 011101 11110111 11110111 010111110 0101010 11101100 11011101 01100101 111111 11111111 01010111 11010111 110111 11011101 11111101 10010101 111101 01011111 10010101 11111101 010101 01010101 11010111 01111101 010101 11111111 111100101 10010101 0101001
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; had, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word had is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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