Analysis of Young men and women, strong and sound
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 (Kvikne) – 1910 (Paris)
Young men and women, strong and sound,
Adorn with beautiful excess
Of play and song and flower-dress
Our fatherland's ancestral ground.
They dream great deeds of ages older,
They long to lead to battles bolder.
Young men and women, strong and sound,
Our nation's honor are, in whom
Our whole life has its better bloom,
Rebirth upon our fathers' ground
Of them of yore. Anew there flower
The old in young folks' summer-power.
Young men and women, strong and sound,
Can doubly do our deeds and fill
With higher hope for all we will,-
Are growth in character's deep ground,
To larger life drawn by the spirit
They from our forefathers inherit.
| Scheme | Abbacc Addacc Aeeaff |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010101 0111001 11010101 1010101 111111010 111111010 11010101 101010101 101111101 010110101 111101110 010111010 11010101 110110101 11011111 11010011 110111010 111010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 631 |
| Words | 115 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 168 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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