Analysis of If I should die tonight
William Percy French 1854 – 1920
"If I should die tonight
And you should come,
And stand beside me,
Lying cold and dumb,
And if while standing there,
You whispered low,
'Here's the ten pounds
You lent me years ago,'
I would arise, although they'd laid me flat,
And say, 'What's that?'
If I should die tonight
But rose to count
With trembling fingers,
That long lost amount
I might live on;
But when
You said' Here's your umbrella
And your fountain pen,'
For one short space
I'd gaze into thy face
And then
Drop dead again."
Scheme | Abxbxcxcdd Aexexfxfggff |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101 0111 01011 10101 011101 1101 1011 111101 110111111 0111 111101 1111 110010 11101 1111 11 1111010 01101 1111 110111 01 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 491 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 12 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 187 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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