Analysis of Love Thy Neighbor
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 (Kvikne) – 1910 (Paris)
Love thy neighbor, to Christ be leal!
Crush him never with iron-heel,
Though in the dust he's lying!
All the living responsive await
Love with power to recreate,
Needing alone the trying.
Scheme | AABCCB |
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Poetic Form | Boy Named Sue Sestain |
Metre | 11101111 11101101 1001110 101001001 1110110 1001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 192 |
Words | 34 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 6 |
Lines Amount | 6 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 148 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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