Analysis of If I Should Ever By Chance
Edward Thomas 1878 (London Borough of Lambeth) – 1917 (Pas-de-Calais)
IF I should ever by chance grow rich
I'll buy Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch,
Roses, Pyrgo, and Lapwater,
And let them all to my eldest daughter.
The rent I shall ask of her will be only
Each year's first violets, white and lonely,
The first primroses and orchises--
She must find them before I do, that is.
But if she finds a blossom on furze
Without rent they shall all forever be hers,
Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch,
Roses, Pyrgo, and Lapwater,--
I shall give them all to my elder daughter.
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|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111101111 111101 10101 0111111010 01111101110 1111001010 011001 1111011111 111101011 01111101010 1101 10101 11111111010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 514 |
| Words | 93 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 13 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 392 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 90 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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