Analysis of When comes the morning?
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 (Kvikne) – 1910 (Paris)
When
comes the real morning?
When golden, the sun's rays hover
Over the earth's snow-cover,
And where the shadows nestle,
Wrestle,
Lifting lightward the root enringèd
Till it shall seem an angel wingèd,
Then it is morning,
Real, real morning.
But if the weather is bad
And my spirit sad,
Never morning I know.
No.
Truly, it's real morning,
When blossom the buds winter-beaten,
The birds having drunk and eaten
Are glad as they sing, divining
Shining
Great new crowns to the tree-tops given,
Cheering the brooks to the broad ocean riven.
Then it is morning,
Real, real morning.
But if the weather is bad
And my spirit sad,
Never morning I know.
No.
When
comes the real morning?
When power to conquer parries
Sorrow and storm, and carries
Sun to the soul, whose burning
Yearning
Opens in love and calls to others:
Good to be unto all as brothers.
Then
it is morning,
Real, real morning.
Greatest power you know
-And most dangerous, lo!-
Will you
this
then possess?
Yes.
Scheme | ABccddeeBBFFGG bhhbbhhBBFFGG ABiibbii abBggxiii |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 10110 11001110 1001110 010110 10 1010111 111111011 11110 1110 1101011 01101 101011 1 101110 110011010 01101010 11111010 10 111101110 10011011010 11110 1110 1101011 01101 101011 1 1 10110 1101101 1001010 1101110 10 100101110 111101110 1 1110 1110 101011 011001 11 1 101 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 935 |
Words | 174 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 14, 13, 8, 9 |
Lines Amount | 44 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 188 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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