Analysis of Workmen's March
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 (Kvikne) – 1910 (Paris)
Left foot! Right foot! Lines unbroken!
Keeping time is power's token.
That makes
one
of many, many,
That makes bold, if fear daunts any,
That makes small the load and lighter,
That makes near the goal and brighter,
Till it greets us gained with laughter,
And we seek the next one after.
Left foot! Right foot! Lines unbroken!
Keeping time is power's token.
Marching, marching of few hundreds,
No one heeds it, never one dreads;
Marching, marching of few thousands,
Here and there wakes some to hearing;
Marching, marching hundred thousands,-
All will mark that thunder nearing.
Left foot! Right foot! Lines unbroken!
Keeping time is power's token.
Let us march all, never weaken
Time from Vardö down to Viken,
Vinger up to Bergen's region,-
Let us make
one
marching legion,
Then we'll rout some wrong from Norway,
Open wide to right the doorway.
Scheme | AAxAbbcccc AAxxdede AAaaaxAaff |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111010 10111010 11 1 11010 11111110 11101010 11101010 11111110 01101110 11111010 10111010 10101110 11111011 10101110 10111110 10101010 11111010 11111010 10111010 11111010 111111 111110 111 1 1010 1111111 1011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 829 |
Words | 148 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 8, 10 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 219 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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