Analysis of Synnove's Song
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 (Kvikne) – 1910 (Paris)
Have thanks for all from our childhood's day,
Our play together in woodland roaming.
I thought that play would go on for aye,
Though life should pass to its gloaming.
I thought that play would go on for aye,
From bowers leading of leafy birches
To where the Solbakke houses lay,
And where the red-painted church is.
I sat and waited through evenings long
And scanned the ridge with the spruces yonder;
But darkening mountains made shadows throng,
And you the way did not wander.
I sat and waited with scarce a doubt:
He'll dare the way when the sun's descended.
The light shone fainter, was nearly out,
The day in darkness had ended.
My weary eye is so wont to gaze,
To turn its look it is slow in learning;
No other landmark it seeks, nor strays,
Beneath the brow sorely burning.
They name a place where I help may find,
And fain to Fagerli church would guide me;
But try not thither to move my mind;
He sits there ever beside me.
--But good it is, that full well I know,
Who placed the houses both here and yonder,
Then cut a way through the woods so low
And let my eye on it wander.
But good it is that full well I know,
Who built the church and to pray invited,
And made them meeting in pairs to go
Before the altar united.
Scheme | abCb Cdad efef ghgh dbdb ijij Kfkf Khkh |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 111111011 1010100110 111111111 11111110 111111111 110101101 1101101 01011011 110101101 010110110 110010111 01011110 110101101 1101101010 011101101 01010110 110111111 1111111010 11011111 01011010 110111111 01111111 11111111 11110011 111111111 1101011010 110110111 01111110 111111111 1101011010 011100111 01010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,220 |
Words | 238 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 119 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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