This is an analysis of the poem Love One Another that begins with:

You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.
You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXbX XaXXXX XbXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101010101101000 1100101011011011 111001010001010001 111010010100 110100101011 110101110101 1010001010101011 11101111011 110100111110011 1110101010111101001 10101001101111000110 111110011010 110010110111 110101111010 10100010101 1011101011011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 308
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, together, be, of, one, but are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.

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  • summary of Love One Another;
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