Analysis of Taylor's song
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 (Kvikne) – 1910 (Paris)
For joys the hours of earth bestow
With sorrow thou must pay.
Though many follow close, yet know,
They're loaned but for a day.
With sighing in thy laughter's stead
Shall come a time of grief,
The load of usury bow thy head,
With loss of thy belief.
Mary Anne, Mary Anne,
Mary Anne, Mary Anne,
Hadst thou not smiled upon me, thou,
I were not weeping now.
May God help him who never can
Give only half his soul;
The time comes surely for that man
To take the sorrow whole.
May God help him who was so glad,
That he cannot forget,
Help him who lost the all he had,
But not his reason yet.
Mary Anne, Mary Anne,
Mary Anne, Mary Anne,
The flowers that my life had grown,
Died out when thou went gone.
Scheme | ababcdcdEEff egeghihiEExx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101101 110111 11010111 111101 1100111 110111 011100111 111101 101101 101101 11110111 101101 11111101 110111 01110111 110101 11111111 111001 11110111 111101 101101 101101 01011111 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 681 |
Words | 140 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 12 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 266 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 69 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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