This is an analysis of That Lives In Us by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi.

If you put your hands on this oar with me,
they will never harm another, and they will come to find…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcdXbefaXghXhXdecehhXgaf
  • Stanza lengths: 25,
  • Metre: 0111110101 10101010110101 1110111 011111010111110 110101 11111101 110110 110 01111010101 010110101010110 00111111100101 1101 01000010101 10101101001110101 11100101111 1110101001001110 0111010110100100 0111 0101010110010 011011111101111 1010111011 01111010101010 100101010010101101 1100100 110
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 25

Repeated words/phrases

they, you, your, that, to

Anaphora

they