Analysis of They Have Found Each Other
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 (Kvikne) – 1910 (Paris)
Mute they wander,
Meeting yonder,
In the wondrous Spring new-born,
That though old as Time's first morn,
Brings fresh youth to all the living,
Now held fast, now far retreating,
But through hearts in oneness beating
Ever fullest bloom is giving.
Mute they wander. E'en the eye
Speaks no thought. For from on high
To their souls sweet strains have spoken
From the wide world's harmony,
Born of light, the darkness broken,
In the dawn of things to be.
Power crowned-
Earth around
Like a sun-song rolled the sound.
Mute they wander. Sweet strains ending-
Eye nor tongue dares yet the lending
Speech to thought.
But lo! quick blending,
All things speak! They sound and shimmer,
Bloom in fragrance, ring and glimmer,
Tint and tone combining, nearer,
Meet as one-with all their thinking
In one beauty, higher, clearer,-
Heaven itself to earth is sinking.
But in this great hour of trysting
Life is opened, its course brightened,
Growth eternal calls, enlisting
Every spirit-power heightened.
Scheme | AABBCCCCDDEFEFGGGCCXCAAACAC CHCH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110 1010 0010111 1111111 11111010 11111010 11101010 10101110 11101101 1111111 11111110 1011100 11101010 0011111 101 101 1011101 11101110 11111010 111 11110 11111010 10101010 10101010 11111110 01101010 100111110 10111011 11101110 10101010 100101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 963 |
Words | 167 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 27, 4 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 390 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 82 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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