The word could be a series of past tense words
I slept late this morning
I bathed late this morning
But the words that make most sense to me is
I ate late this morning
Indicates a state of reality.
Indicative verbs state what is going on at that moment, or what could very possibly happen.
e.g "I run through the forest".
"The war left a <em>legacy </em>full of pain and suffering"
Hello. You did not show the sentence that this question refers to, which means that I cannot give you a very specific answer. However, knowing what basketball games are like, we can project that a phrase from a poem that uses Sprung rhythm to expose the way basketball players play, would show a fast, frantic, direct and very incisive rhythm, promoting certain ideas, clear and very well established. Just as a player must be on the court.