Analysis of Too late

Leo Long 1986 (Durban)



“One day you’ll leave it too late”,
He always said.
For my life of procrastination
There was always tomorrow.

“There’s no rush”,
No hurry... no urgency here
For what can’t be done today
There’s always tomorrow.

The screaming tyres
The crunching iron
He was in a hurry
‘cause, “I’d made him late.”

Readying the children,
Caught in traffic
Finally at the ward
The doctor’s face tells the story

Grotesque it says,
“For the words you’ve failed to say today,
There is no tomorrow”.
He speaks and it thunders, “Sorry you’re just...
Too late!”.


Scheme AXBC XXDC EXFA BXXF EDCXA
Poetic Form
Metre 1111111 111 11110010 11101 111 11011001 1111101 1101 0101 01010 110010 11111 100010 1010 100101 01011010 0111 101111101 11101 1101101011 11
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 556
Words 95
Sentences 9
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 5
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 81
Words per stanza (avg) 19
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Submitted by leol.15970 on May 12, 2021

Modified on March 21, 2023

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