Analysis of To aasmund olafsen vinje (sung at his wife's grave)
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 (Kvikne) – 1910 (Paris)
Your house to guests has shelter lent,
While you with pen were seated.
In silent quest they came and went,
You saw them not, nor greeted.
But when now they
Were gone away,
Your babe without a mother lay,
And you had lost your helpmate.
The home you built but yesterday
In death to-day is sinking,
And you stand sick and worn and gray
On ruins of your thinking.
Your way lay bare
Since child you were,
The shelter that you first could share
Was this that now is shattered.
But know, the guests that to you came
In sorrow's waste will meet you;
Though shy you shrink, they still will claim
The right with love to treat you.
For where you go
To you they show
The world in radiant light aglow
Of great and wondrous visions.
What once you saw, now passing o'er,
Will but be made the clearer;
It is the far eternal shore,
That on your way draws nearer.
Your poet-sight
Will see in light
All that the clouds have wrapped in night;-
Great doubts will find an answer.
And later when you leave again
The waste of woe thought-pregnant,
Whom you have met shall teach us then.
Your pen in power regnant.
From sorrow's weal
With purer zeal,
Inspiring light, and pain's appeal
Shall shine your wondrous visions.
Scheme | ABABCCCA CDCDEFEX GHGHIIIJ FFXFKKKF LXLAMMMJ |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (33%) Tetractys (23%) |
Metre | 11111101 1111010 01011101 1111110 1111 0101 11010101 011111 0111110 0111110 01110101 1101110 1111 1110 01011111 1111110 11011111 011111 11111111 0111111 1111 1111 010100101 1101010 111111010 1111010 11010101 1111110 1101 1101 11011101 1111110 01011101 0111110 11111111 110101 111 1101 01010101 1111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,165 |
Words | 226 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 187 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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