Analysis of Too late
“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 |
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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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