Analysis of You And Me
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
I'm part of people I have known
And they are part of me;
The seeds of thought that I have sown
In other minds I see.
There's something of me in the throne
And in the gallows tree.
There's something of me in each one
With whom I work and play,
For islanded there can be none
In this dynamic day;
And meshed with me perchance may be
A leper in Cathay.
There's me in you and you in me,
For deeply in us delves
Such common thought that never we
Can call ourselves ourselves.
In coils of universal fate
No man is isolate.
For you and I are History,
The all that ever was;
And woven in the tapestry
Of everlasting laws,
Persist will we in Time to be,
Forever you and me.
Scheme | ABABAB CDCDBD BEBEFF BXBXBB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110111 011111 01111111 010111 11011001 000101 11011011 111101 111111 010101 01110111 010001 11010101 110011 11011101 11001001 0110101 11110 11011100 011101 01000100 10101 01110111 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 769 |
Words | 136 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 128 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 08, 2023
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