Analysis of The Princess
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 (Kvikne) – 1910 (Paris)
The princess looked down from her bower high,
The youth blew his horn as he lingered thereby.
"Be quiet, O youth, will forever you blow?
It hinders my thoughts, that would far away go,
Now, when sets the sun."
The princess looked down from her bower high,
The youth ceased his blowing, his horn he laid by.
"Why are you so quiet? Now more shall you blow,
It lifts all my thoughts, that would far away go,
Now, when sets the sun."
The princess looked down from her bower high,
The youth blew again, as he lingered thereby.
Then weeping, she whispered: "O God, let me know
The name of this sorrow that burdens me so! --
Now has set the sun."
Scheme | AabbC AabbC Aabbc |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101110101 01111111011 11011101011 11011111011 11101 0101110101 01111011111 11111011111 11111111011 11101 0101110101 01101111011 11011011111 01111011011 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 663 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 161 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 19, 2023
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