This is an analysis of Late, Late, So Late by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

Late, late, so late! and dark the night and chill!
Late, late, so late! but we can enter still.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaBccBccB ccX
  • Stanza lengths: 9,3,
  • Metre: 1111110111 1111111101 1111110101 1111111101 1100011001 1111110101 1111111101 1110111101 1111110101 11110100011 1110110101 11111101010
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

late, we, and, too

Anaphora

late