Analysis of Too late

John Gathange 2008 (Dandora)



Everytime am looking for answers
Why not me?
I've been sidelined for too long
Made me feel am not enough
Life gave me wrong answers
And being punished for being more wiser
I only fear dying young


Scheme ABCDAEF
Poetic Form
Metre 10110110 111 111111 1111101 111110 01010110110 1101101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 200
Words 42
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 7
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 157
Words per stanza (avg) 37
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