Analysis of Magnus the blind
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 (Kvikne) – 1910 (Paris)
'Oh, let me look once again and see
Starlight the heavens o'ersweeping!'
Begged young Magnus on bended knee,
It was sore to see.
All the women afar were weeping.
'Oh, till to-morrow! The mountains to see
And ocean its blue displaying,
Only once, and then let it be!'
Thus he bent the knee,
While his friends for mercy were praying.
'Oh, in the church let God's blood so bright
Be the last blessing that greets me!
It shall bathe with a flood of light
Through eternal night
My eyes, when the darkness meets me!'
Deep sank the steel, and each seeing eye
Lightning-like night had swallowed.
'Magnus, King Magnus, good-by, good-by!'
-'Oh, good-by, good-by,-
You who eighteen summers me followed!'
Scheme | ABAAB ABAAB CACCA DEDDE |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (35%) Tetractys (30%) |
Metre | 111110101 10101 11101101 11111 101001010 1111001011 01011010 10101111 11101 111110010 100111111 10110111 11110111 10101 11101011 110101101 1011110 101101111 11111 110110110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 681 |
Words | 128 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 132 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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