Analysis of Olaf trygvason
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 (Kvikne) – 1910 (Paris)
Broad the sails o'er the North Sea go;
High on deck in the morning glow
Erling Skjalgsson from Sole
Scans all the sea toward Denmark:
'Cometh never Olaf Trygvason?'
Six and fifty the ships are there,
Sails are let down, toward Denmark stare
Sun-reddened men;-then murmur:
'Where is the great Long Serpent?
Cometh never Olaf Trygvason?'
When the sun in the second dawn
Cloudward rising no mast had drawn,
Grew to a storm their clamor:
'Where is the great Long Serpent?
Cometh never Olaf Trygvason?'
Silent, silent that moment bound,
Stood they all; for from ocean's ground
Sighed round the fleet a muffled:
'Taken the great Long Serpent,
Fallen is Olaf Trygvason.'
Ever since, through so many a year,
Norway's ships must beside them hear,
Clearest in nights of moonshine:
'Taken the great Long Serpent,
Fallen is Olaf Trygvason.'
Scheme | aaxxB ccdEB bbdEB ffxEB xxbEB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101100111 11100101 10111 1101011 1010101 10100111 11110111 111110 1101110 1010101 10100101 1101111 1101110 1101110 1010101 10101101 11111101 1101010 1001110 101101 101111001 1110111 100111 1001110 101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 812 |
Words | 147 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 130 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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