Analysis of The Mother's Song
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 (Kvikne) – 1910 (Paris)
Lord! Oh, hold in Thy hand my child,
Guard by the river its playing!
Send Thou Thy Spirit as comrade mild,
Lest it be lost in its straying!
Deep is the water and false the ground.
Lord, if His arms shall the child surround,
Drowned it shall not be, but living,
Till Thou salvation art giving.
Mother, whom loneliness befalls,
Knowing not where it is faring,
Goes to the door, and its name there calls;
Breezes no answer are bearing.
This is her thought, that everywhere
He and Thou for it always care;
Jesus, its little brother,
Follows it home to mother.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101111 11010110 11110111 11110110 110100101 111110101 11111110 11010110 10110001 10111110 110101111 10110110 1101110 1011111 1011010 1011110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 556 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 216 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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