This is an analysis of If I Should Die Tonight by Arabella Eugenia Smith.
If I should die to-night,
My friends would look upon my quiet face…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Abbccbba Aaadddda AeXbbeea affXXdda
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 011101 1111011101 0111000101 1111110111 11011100111 1101010100 1111010001 1111011101 011101 1111010101 1101010111 1101010111 1011010111 01000110011 1101110101 1111011101 011101 10101111101 01010110000 0111100101 1101110101 1100010101 1111011101 11110100101 111101 1111011111 0101011101 1100111100 110011101001 0111010111 1101011111 0100111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
and, i
Anaphora
and, some
Epiphora
night
