Analysis of A Meeting
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 (Kvikne) – 1910 (Paris)
… O'er uplands fresh swift sped my sleigh…
A light snow fell; along the way
Stood firs and birches slender.
The former pondered deep, alone,
The latter laughed, their white boughs shone;-
All brings a picture tender.
So light and free is now the air;
Of all its burdens stripped it bare
The snow with playful sally.
I glimpse behind its veil so thin
A landscape gay, and high within
A snow-peak o'er the valley.
But from the border white and brown,
Where'er I look, there's peeping down
A face… but whose, whose is it?
I bore my gaze 'neath cap and brim
And see the snowflakes swarm and swim;-
Will some one here me visit?
A star fell on my glove… right here…
And here again… its unlike peer;…
They will with riddles pose me.
And smiles that in the air abound
From eyes so good… I look around…
'T is memory besnows me.
The stars spin fine their filigree,
Can hidden spirits in it be?
There haunts me something awing…
You finer birch, you snow unstained,
You purer air,-a soul you've gained?
Who is it here now drawing
His features dear in nature's face,
In all this fascinating grace,
In falling stars that cheat me,-
In these white gleams that finely glance,
In all this silent rhythmic dance?…
Hans Brecke!-comes to meet me.
Scheme | AABCCB DDEFFE GGXHHX XXEIIE EEJKKJ LLEMME |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101011111 01110101 110110 01010101 01011111 1101010 11011101 11110111 0111010 11011111 0110101 01110010 11010101 10111101 0111111 11111101 0101101 1111110 01111111 01011011 1111011 01100101 11111101 1110011 0111110 11010011 111101 11011101 11010111 1111110 11010101 0111001 0101111 01111101 01110101 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,221 |
Words | 234 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 157 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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