This is an analysis of If You Should Pass by Dora Sigerson Shorter.
If by my tomb some day you careless pass,
A moment grieved by coming on my name,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefcbcb XaXX
- Stanza lengths: 16,4,
- Metre: 0111111101 0101110111 1101010101 0111010101 0111110001 11011100010 0011011101 11110101010 1111000101 0111010101 0111011101 0111111101 1101110111 1001010011 1101011101 0101010111 10110001000 1111010101 1111010101 1101001000
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
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