This is an analysis of the poem Being Late that begins with:
Something dangerous is beginning:
I am coming late to my own self....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdefgheidXhjddbXiiiXdbiihehXfigbXklkblfkafjcek Xh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 48,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101000010 111010111 111010011 010101 111010010 111110010 1110100100 1011011001 11110 111101110 11010111 1010100111 10110 0011010111 10111111 10111111 111010011 1101101111100 11100011 1110101101010 111110100010 111000100100 10111011 010011011 11011100110 11101101 11010101 11100111010 1111110 110111 1101101 1110100010 11110110 11001011 01010111 111110010111 101100111 10101011 1110111 11111111 11101 1101001 1011010 11111010 011011 1011011 10110 010101 1 01011011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 839
- Average number of words per stanza: 155
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; made, my, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, everything are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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