This is an analysis of the poem If You Should Pass that begins with:

If by my tomb some day you careless pass,
A moment grieved by coming on my name,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefcbcb XaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0111111101 0101110111 1101010101 0111010101 0111110001 11011100010 0011011101 11110101010 1111000101 0111010101 0111011101 0111111101 1101110111 1001010011 1101011101 0101010111 10110001000 1111010101 1111010101 1101001000
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 421
  • Average number of words per stanza: 79
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my is repeated.

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  • summary of If You Should Pass;
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