Analysis of Love One Another

Khalil Gibran 1883 (Bsharri) – 1931 (New York City)



Love one another, but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other's cup, but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread, but eat not from the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone.
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.
Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping.
For only the hand of life can contain your hearts.
And stand together, yet not too near together.
For the pillars of the temple stand apart.
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.


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Poetic Form
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Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 636
Words 127
Sentences 12
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 11
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 45
Words per line (avg) 11
Letters per stanza (avg) 494
Words per stanza (avg) 125
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 04, 2023

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Khalil Gibran

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