Analysis of To Erika Lie
When Norse nature's dower
Tones will paint with power,
There is more than mountain-heights that tower,-
Plains spread wide-extending,
Whereon at their wending
Summer nights soft dews are sending.
Forests great are growing,
And in long waves going
Glommen's valley fill to overflowing,-
There are green slopes vernal,
Glad with joy fraternal,
Open to the light supernal.
For revealing wholly
All things fine and holy-
As in sunshine birds are soaring slowly,
Or, their spells transmitting,
Northern Lights are flitting,-
None but maiden-hands are fitting.
Your
hands came, and playing,
O'er their secrets straying
Picture after picture are portraying,
As the poet dreamed them,
In soul-travail teemed them,
Till your artist hands redeemed them.
Now their light far-flinging
We see flashing, swinging,
Sparks as from your father's humor springing;
Now there meets us nigher,
Mirroring the higher,
Mother's eye of softer fire.
Child-heart tones are holding
All our minds and molding,
So its faith the wide world is enfolding,
While your sweet sounds sally,
Truth to tell and rally,
Maiden blonde from Glommen's valley.
Scheme | ABBCCC CCCDDD EEECCC XCCCFFF CCCABB CCCEEE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101 111110 1111101110 111010 11110 10111110 101110 001110 11011100 111110 111010 101011 101010 111010 101111010 111010 101110 11101110 1 11010 1011010 1010101010 101011 010111 11101011 111110 111010 1111101010 11111 100010 10111010 111110 1101010 11101111 111110 111010 1011110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,087 |
Words | 179 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 7, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 37 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 149 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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