This is an analysis of the poem If I Should Die that begins with:
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If I should die,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XXXXXXaXbXXXXXXXab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,18,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 0111 111100 1111010 11110 11110 101100100 0111110 11110010 1101110 010101 11011101 1101010 11001000 1111010 0101010 11011000 1100110 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 268
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; should is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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