This is an analysis of the poem If You Would Please Me that begins with:
If you would please me when I've passed away
Let not your grief embitter you. Be brave; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcdee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0111111101 1111010101 1011001101 1101010111 10110011001 1101011101 1100010111 1111011101 1111111100 1111010101 1101011101 1111111101 1001010111 0111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 659
- Average number of words per stanza: 121
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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