Analysis of Mountain Song
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 (Kvikne) – 1910 (Paris)
When you will the mountains roam
And your pack are making,
Put therein not much from home,
Light shall be your taking!
Drag no valley-fetters strong
To those upland spaces,
Toss them with a joyous song
To the mountains' bases!
Birds sing Hail! from many a bough,
Gone the fools' vain talking,
Purer breezes fan your brow,
You the heights are walking.
Fill your breast and sing with joy!
Childhood's mem'ries starting,
Nod with blushing cheeks and coy,
Bush and heather parting.
If you stop and listen long,
You will hear upwelling
Solitude's unmeasured song
To your ear full swelling;
And when now there purls a brook,
Now stones roll and tumble,
Hear the duty you forsook
In a world-wide rumble.
Fear, but pray, you anxious soul,
While your mem'ries meet you!
Thus go on; the perfect whole
On the top shall greet you.
Christ, Elijah, Moses, there
Wait your high endeavor.
Seeing them you'll know no care,
Bless your path forever.
Scheme | ABABCDCD EBEBFBFBCBCBGHGH IJIJKLKL |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110101 011110 1011111 111110 1110101 111010 1110101 101010 11111001 101110 1010111 101110 1110111 1110 1110101 101010 1110101 1111 111 111110 0111101 111010 1010101 001110 1111101 11111 1110011 101111 1010101 111010 1011111 111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 923 |
Words | 164 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 16, 8 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 243 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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