Good-Morning
Day's coming up now, joy's returned,Sorrow's dark cloud-castles captured and burned;Over the mountain-tops glowingLight-king his armies is throwing."Up now, up now!" calls the bird,"Up now, up now!" child-voice heard,Up now my hope in sunshine. "
Words in this poem
- sunshine n.
- The light of the sun, or the place where it shines; the direct rays of the sun, the place where they fall, or the warmth and light which they give.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Good-Morning is in the public domain. This text is taken from Poems and Songs, Project Gutenberg ebook #6619, the Arthur Hubbell Palmer translation; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Good-Morning, in Poems and Songs (1915), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #6619, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/bjornson-poems-and-songs/good-morning.html, id L29296.
Form and metre
Good-Morning is 7 lines in a single stanza. It is in rhyming couplets, 86% of the lines: octosyllabic couplets. The metre is iambic tetrameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 82%).
See other poems in octosyllabic couplets, other poems in iambic tetrameter.
Measured by Laurel's pipeline, not copied from a handbook: how stress and metre are counted, how rhyme is lettered, how a drifted rhyme is found. Where the dictionary cannot confirm a rhyme the letter is withheld, not guessed.
Rhyme words, stanza by stanza
The word that ends each line, lettered by the rhyme it makes; a dash is a line whose rhyme the dictionary could not confirm.
- 1 AABBCC- returnedA · burnedA · glowingB · throwingB · birdC · heardC · sunshine
Scansion, line by line
Each line with its syllable count and the stresses the words themselves fix: / stressed, ˘ unstressed, · a syllable the word leaves free and the metre decides. Read against iambic tetrameter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| Day's coming up now, joy's returned, | 8 | ·/˘···˘/ |
| Sorrow's dark cloud-castles captured and burned; | 10 | /˘··/˘/˘·· |
| Over the mountain-tops glowing | 8 | ···/˘·/˘ |
| Light-king his armies is throwing. | 8 | ···/˘·/˘ |
| "Up now, up now!" calls the bird, | 7 | ······· |
| "Up now, up now!" child-voice heard, | 7 | ······· |
| Up now my hope in sunshine. " | 7 | ·····/· |
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