Analysis of In the forest
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 (Kvikne) – 1910 (Paris)
List to the forest-voice murmuring low:
All that it saw when alone with its laughter,
All that it suffered in times that came after,
Mournful it tells, that the wind may know.
Scheme | ABBA |
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Poetic Form | Enclosed rhyme Quatrain |
Metre | 1101011001 11111011110 11110011110 101110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 180 |
Words | 34 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 138 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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