Analysis of To The Survivors
Henrik Johan Ibsen 1828 (Skien, Telemark) – 1906 (Kristiania)
NOW they sing the hero loud; --
But they sing him in his shroud.
Torch he kindled for his land;
On his brow ye set its brand.
Taught by him to wield a glaive;
Through his heart the steel ye drave.
Trolls he smote in hard-fought fields;
Ye bore him down 'twixt traitor shields.
But the shining spoils he won,
These ye treasure as your own.--
Dim them not, that so the dead
Rest appeased his thorn-crowned head.
| Scheme | AA BB CC DD XX EE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Couplet |
| Metre | 1110101 1111011 1110111 1111111 1111101 1110111 1110111 11111101 1010111 1110111 1111101 1011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 417 |
| Words | 81 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 52 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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