Analysis of The Dove
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 (Kvikne) – 1910 (Paris)
I saw a dove fear-daunted,
By howling storm-blast driven;
Where waves their power vaunted,
From land it had been riven.
No cry nor moan it uttered,
I heard no plaint repeated;
In vain its pinions fluttered --
It had to sink, defeated.
| Scheme | ABABCACD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101110 1101110 1111010 1111110 1111110 1111010 011110 1111010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 238 |
| Words | 44 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 181 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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