Analysis of Norwegian students' greeting with a procession to professor welhaven
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 (Kvikne) – 1910 (Paris)
Hear us, O age-laden singer!
Streams of your tones are returning,
Touching your heart!
Spirit of youth is their bringer,
Under your window with yearning
Called by your art.
Now our soul's echoes abounding
Soar in the blue,
In the sun-shimmering blue,
High where your silvery song-notes are sounding.
Smile on your labor now lightened,
You who in winter perfected
Seeds to be sown!
All that your courage has brightened,
All that your pity protected,
Now it is grown;
Over your shoulders upswinging,
Folds round your frame,
Bringing in roses your name,
Joyous the sprite of your poetry bringing.
Onward our life is now marching,
Banner-like high thoughts are flying,
Lifted to view.
One 'mid the foremost o'erarching
Leads where the pathway is lying,-
It came from you!
Runes of our past with their warning
Carved on its shaft,
Show us the spring you have quaffed,
Leading our land to the light of the morning.
Scheme | ABCABCBDDB EFGEFGBHHB BBDBBDBXCB |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (37%) Tetractys (30%) |
Metre | 11111010 11111010 1011 1011111 10110110 1111 110110010 1001 0011001 11110011110 11110110 11010010 1111 11110110 11110010 1111 101101 1111 1001011 10011110010 101011110 10111110 1011 11011 1101110 1111 111011110 1111 1101111 101011011010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 887 |
Words | 158 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 10, 10 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 240 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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