Analysis of To Molde
Molde, Molde,
True as a song,
Billowy rhythms whose thoughts fill with love me,
Follow thy form in bright colors above me,
Bear thy beauty along.
Naught is so black as thy fjord, when storm-lashes
Sea-salted scourge it and inward it dashes,
Naught is so mild as thy strand, as thine islands,
Ah, as thine islands!
Naught is so strong as thy mountain-linked ring,
Naught is so sweet as thy summer-nights bring.
Molde, Molde,
True as a song,
Murm'ring memories throng.
Molde, Molde,
Flower-o'ergrown,
Houses and gardens where good friends wander!
Hundreds of miles away,-but I'm yonder
'Mid the roses full-blown.
Strong shines the sun on that mountain-rimmed beauty,
Fast is the fight, let each man do his duty.
Friends, who your favor would never begrudge me,
Gently now judge me!-
Only with life ends the fight for the right.
Thought flees to you for a refuge in light.
Molde, Molde,
Flower-o'ergrown,
Childhood's memories' throne.
Oh, may at last
In thine embrace, life's fleeting
Conflict past,
Glad thine evening-glory greeting,
-Where life let thought awaken,-
My thought by death be taken!
Scheme | ABccbddeeffABb AGhhgaaccaaAGg afafgg |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11 1101 110111111 10110110011 111001 11111111110 11011010110 11111111110 11110 1111111011 1111111011 11 1101 11001 11 101 1001011110 1011011110 101011 11011110110 11011111110 11110110011 10111 1011101101 1111101001 11 101 11001 1111 0101110 101 11101010 1111010 1111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,069 |
Words | 186 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 14, 14, 6 |
Lines Amount | 34 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 284 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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