Analysis of At A Banquet Given To The Deputation Of The Swedish Riksdag To The Coronation, In Trondhjem, July 17
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 (Kvikne) – 1910 (Paris)
You chosen men we welcome here
From brothers near.
We welcome you to Olaf's town
That Norway's greatest mem'ries crown,
Where ancient prowess looking down
With searching gaze,
The question puts to sea and strand:
Are men now in the Northern land
Like yesterday's?
'T is well, if on the battlefield
Our 'Yes' is sealed!
'T is well, if now our strength is steeled
To grasp our fathers' sword and shield
And in life's warfare lift and wield
For God and home!
For us they fought; 't is now our call
To raise for them a temple-hall,
Fair freedom's dome.
List to the Northern spirit o'er
Our sea and shore!
Here once high thoughts in word were freed,
In homely song, in homely deed;
And ever shall the selfsame need
That spirit sing:
Heed not things trivial, foreign, new;
Alone th' eternal, Northern, true
Can harvest bring.
O brother-band, this faith so dear
Has brought us here?
The spirit of the North to free,
Our common toil and prayer shall be,
Those greater days again to see,-
As once before,
Of home and trust a message strong
To send the warring world we long
Forevermore.
Scheme | ABCCCDEED FFEFFGHHG XIJJJKLLK BAMMMINNA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011101 1101 1101111 111011 11010101 1101 01011101 11100101 110 11111010 10111 1111110111 111010101 0011101 1101 1111111101 11110101 1101 110101010 10101 11110101 01010101 0101011 1101 111100101 0111010101 1101 11011111 1111 01010111 101010111 11010111 1101 11010101 11010111 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,050 |
Words | 198 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 9, 9, 9 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 209 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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