Analysis of Song for the students' glee club
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 (Kvikne) – 1910 (Paris)
Now, brothers, sing out our song,
Whose train of light shall follow long!
With love are its measures beating
And victory's joyous greeting,
While round about it flower-seeds
In will of youth shall grow to deeds!
Our song has gone far and. wide,
Bright mem'ries on our way abide,
In flags flying, friends that love us,
In wreaths from fair hands above us,
In feasts where youth's full spirits stream,
Our nation's past, our nation's dream.
At
Hald
on a sunny day
That shot-torn flag of many a fray
Was waving above our singing,
Soul-fire to our music bringing,
The ardor of that glorious band,
Who died as heroes for our land.
To
Arendal
our summer-way
'For might and fame!'-remember aye!
The fleet on the bay was riding,
Our singer-ship through it gliding.
Our merchant-ships shall rule the wave!
This joyous hoisting-song we gave.
We gathered in
Bergen
town
Of ancient and of new renown.
The horns of our fathers greet us,
King Sverre comes forth to meet us;
But fresh and full the present spoke
In heartfelt song from all its folk.
Upsala, Copenhagen, Lund,
In each our song its garland won,
Fair fetters of music winding,
Harmonious the Northland binding;
Our mighty choral theme shall be
The Northern races' unity.
With courage, then, onward roam!
Where echo answers is our home.
Our past that we sing draws nearer,
Our future in song grows clearer,
E'en while we wander hand in hand
And summer sing into our land.
Scheme | AABBCC DDEEFF XXGGBBHH XXGXBBII XJKKEELL X JBBM M NNOOHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011101 11111101 11111010 011010 11011101 01111111 10111101 11110101 01101111 01111011 01111101 1010110101 1 1 10101 111111001 110011010 1101101010 010111001 111101101 1 1 10101 11010101 01101110 101011110 101011101 11010111 1100 10 1 11001101 011101011 1111111 11010101 0111111 11001 011011101 11011010 01000110 101010111 01010100 1101101 110101101 101111110 101001110 111110101 010101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,382 |
Words | 252 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 8, 8, 8, 1, 4, 1, 6 |
Lines Amount | 48 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 123 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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