This is an analysis of the poem It Is Much Too Late! that begins with:
It is much too late,
To remove that which has taken place....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXXcaaa aabdcc Aeaeeddc AbaXcdXAdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,8,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00111 001111101 11001 11011100 1010101110 1111100 001 110011011 100111 001010101 1010101 100010 01101010 111001 00111 001011101001 111 001110001111 00111011100110 10101 111 1011111 00111 00111010101 111101 11101001 01001110 11111 00111 11010010 00011100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, to are repeated.
The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of It Is Much Too Late!;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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