This is an analysis of Too Late by Alfred Austin.

Had you but shown me living what you show,
Now I am gone, to keep my grave-plot green,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababXcXcdcdcee
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1111110111 1111011111 1111110111 10101110110 01011100111 1111110001 1101010111 1101010100 1001000111 0111001010 1100111101 11011111010 10110100111 0010010111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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