This is an analysis of Community by John Donne.

Good we must love, and must hate ill,
For ill is ill, and good good still ;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabccb ddebbX ffebbeXeeabba
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,13,
  • Metre: 01111111 11011001 11110100 11110111 11110101 11111101 01111101 11010011 11111111 11100101 11110111 10011111 01000101 00110011 10110101 01011111 11011101 11011111 11111111 111111010 11111111 11111101 11110101 11110101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

ill, good, they