Analysis of If You Would Please Me
Edgar Albert Guest 1881 (Birmingham) – 1959 (Detroit, Michigan)
If you would please me when I've passed away
Let not your grief embitter you. Be brave;
Turn with full courage from my mounded grave
And smile upon the children at their play;
Let them make merry in their usual way;
Do not with sorrow those young lives enslave
Or steal from them the fleeting joys they crave;
Let not your grieving spoil their happy day.
Live on as you have lived these many years,
Still let your soul be gentle and be kind —
I never liked to see those eyes in tears!
Weep not too much that you must stay behind;
Share in the lives of others as you'd share,
If God had willed it still to leave me there.
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Metre | 1111111101 1111010111 111101111 0101010111 11110011001 1111011101 1111010111 1111011101 1111111101 1111110011 1101111101 1111111101 1001110111 1111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 624 |
Words | 124 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 485 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 122 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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