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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Metre | 110101110111 1110101010101111 11101111111 110101111111011 1010100110111111101 10101101101111010110 111110111010 110011110111 010101111010 10101010101 001100101101101 |
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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