Analysis of If I Should Die
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919
If I should die, how kind you all would grow!
In that strange hour I would not have one foe.
There are no words too beautiful to say
Of one who goes forevermore away
Across that ebbing tide which has no flow.
With what new lustre my good deeds would glow!
If faults were mine, no one would call them so,
Or speak of me in aught but praise that day,
If I should die.
Ah, friends! before my listening ear lies low,
While I can hear and understand, bestow
That gentle treatment and fond love, I pray,
The lustre of whose late though radiant way
Would gild my grave with mocking light, I know,
If I should die.
Scheme | aabbaaabCaabbaC |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1111111111 01110111111 1111110011 1111101 0111011111 1111011111 1101111111 1111011111 1111 11011100111 111100101 1101001111 01011111001 1111110111 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 600 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 470 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 119 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 08, 2023
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