Alone And Repentant (To A Friend Since Deceased)
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson 1832 ( Kvikne) – 1910 (Paris)
(See Note 9)
A friend I possess, whose whispers just said,
"God's peace!" to my night-watching mind.
When daylight is gone and darkness brings dread,
He ever the way can find.
He utters no word to smite and to score;
He, too, has known sin and its grief.
He heals with his look the place that is sore,
And stays till I have relief.
He takes for his own the deed that is such
That sorrows of heart increase.
He cleanses the wound with so gentle a touch,
The pain must give way to peace.
He followed each hope the heights that would scale
Reproached not a hapless descent.
He stands here just now, so mild, but so pale; -
In time he shall know what it meant.
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on April 26, 2023
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| Scheme | X ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 652 |
| Words | 133 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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