Analysis of Too-Late
It was just another concert
in just another town
Each face a mirror looking back
my words they sang out loud
Another lonely tour date
another strange hotel
The music plays but not for me
—too late to ring the bell
(Dreamsleep: July, 2022)
| Scheme | XXXX XAXA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101010 010101 11010101 111111 0101011 010101 01011111 111101 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 243 |
| Words | 46 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 63 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on July 08, 2022
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on July 08, 2022
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