Analysis of Bergen
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson 1832 ( Kvikne) – 1910 (Paris)
(See Note 19)
As thou sittest there
Skerry-bound and fair,
Mountains high around and ocean's deep before thee,
On thee casts her spell
Saga, that shall tell
Once again the wonders of our land.
Honor is thy due,
"Bergen never new,"
Ancient and unaging as thy Holberg's humor;
Once kings sought thine aid, -
Mighty now in trade, -
First to fly the flag of liberty.
Oft in proud array,
As a sunshine-day
Breaks forth from thy rain and fog wind-driven,
Thou didst come with men
Or great deeds again,
When the clouds were darkest o'er our land.
Thy soul was the ground,
Wit-enriched and sound,
Whence there sprang stout thoughts to make our country's harvest,
Whence our arts exist,
In their birth-hour kissed
By thy nature, somber, large, and strong.
In thy mountain-hall
Learned our painter, Dahl;
Wand'ring on thy strands our poet dreamed, Welhaven;
All thy morning's gold
Ole Bull ensouled,
Greeted on thy bay by all the world.
With thy sea-wide sway
Thou hast might for aye,
Fjords of blue convey thy life-blood through our country.
Norway's spirit thou
Dost with joy endow, -
Great thy past, no less thy future great.
Scheme | A BBCDDE FFXGGC HHIJJE KKXLLX XXIXAX HXCMMX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11 1111 10101 101010101011 11101 10111 1010101101 10111 10101 100111110 11111 10101 111011100 10101 1011 1111101110 11111 11101 10101010101 11101 10101 1111111101010 110101 011101 111010101 01101 110101 11111101011 11101 111 101111101 11111 11111 1110111111010 1101 11101 111111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,100 |
Words | 202 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 37 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 124 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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