Analysis of To Hans Christian Andersen
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 (Kvikne) – 1910 (Paris)
We welcome you this wondrous summer-day,
When childhood's dreams on earth are streaming,
To bloom and sing, to brighten and to pale;
A fairy-tale,
A fairy-tale, our Northland all is seeming,
And holds you in its arms a festal space
With grateful glee and whisperings face to face.
Th' angelic noise,
Sweet strains of children's joys,
Bears you a moment to that home
Whence all our dreams, whence all our dreams have come.
We welcome you! Our nation all is young,
Still in that age of dreams enthralling,
When greatest things in fairy-tales are nursed,
And he is first,
And he is first, who hears his Lord's high calling.
Of childhood's longings you the meaning know,
And to the North a goal of greatness show.
Your fantasy
Has just that path made free,
Where, past the small things that you hate,
We yet shall find, we yet shall find the great.
Scheme | XABBACCDDXX XAEEAFFGGHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101110101 11111110 1101110011 0101 01011011110 011011011 110101111 11101 111101 11010111 111011110111 11011010111 1011111 1101010111 0111 01111111110 111010101 0101011101 1100 111111 11011111 1111111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 831 |
Words | 153 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 11, 11 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 330 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 76 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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