Analysis of If I should die
Benjamin Franklin King 1857 (St. Joseph, Michigan) – 1894 (Bowling Green, Kentucky)
1 If I should die to-night
2 And you should come to my cold corpse and say,
3 Weeping and heartsick o'er my lifeless clay --
4 If I should die to-night,
5 And you should come in deepest grief and woe --
6 And say: "Here's that ten dollars that I owe,"
7 I might arise in my large white cravat
8 And say, "What's that?"
9 If I should die to-night
10 And you should come to my cold corpse and kneel,
11 Clasping my bier to show the grief you feel,
12 I say, if I should die to-night
13 And you should come to me, and there and then
14 Just even hint 'bout payin' me that ten,
15 I might arise the while,
16 But I'd drop dead again.
Scheme | ABBACCAX ADDAEEXE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111 0111111101 1001101101 111111 0111010101 0111110111 110101111 0111 111111 0111111101 111110111 11111111 0111110101 110111111 110101 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 720 |
Words | 138 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 15 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 233 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 116 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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