Analysis of Toast For The Men Of Eidsvold
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 (Kvikne) – 1910 (Paris)
'Twas then this land of ours we drew
From centuries of ice and sorrow,
And let it of the sun's warmth borrow,
And law and plow brought order new;
We dug the wealth in mountain treasured,
Our stately ships the oceans measured,
And springtime thoughts were free to run
As round the Pole the midnight sun.
And still with God we'll conquer, hold:
Each plot reclaimed for harvest-reaping,
Each ship our sea takes to its keeping,
Each child-soul we to manhood mold,
Each spark of thought our life illuming,
Each deed to fruit of increase blooming,-
A province adds unto our land
And o'er our freedom guard shall stand.
Scheme | ABBACCDD EFFEFFGG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111011 110011010 01110111 01011101 110101010 1010101010 0110111 1101011 01111101 110111010 1110111110 1111111 11111011 111110110 010110101 0101010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 605 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 242 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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