Analysis of If--
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919
If I were a raindrop, and you were a leaf,
I would burst from the cloud above you
And lie on your breast in a rapture of rest,
And love you, love you, love you.
If I were a brown bee, and you were a rose,
I would fly to you, love, nor miss you;
I would sip and sip from your nectared lip,
And kiss you, kiss you, kiss you.
If I were a doe, dear, and you were a brook,
Ah, what would I do then, think you?
I would kneel by the bank, in the grasses dank,
And drink you, drink you, drink you.
| Scheme | XAXA XAXA XAXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1100101001 111101011 01111001011 0111111 11001101001 111111111 111011111 0111111 11001101001 11111111 11110100101 0111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 486 |
| Words | 109 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 119 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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