Battle Of Brunanburgh Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEAAFGEHCCI JJKJJ ELJMJCCCAEANLCCLE JCJCOJ OPQQRJSCM AQJO ECATCC OJOE CQJJCCCUJE CQQEJQOAEFEJJJJVC JRQEEOJ OAECE OOCCCC EJGJJJESEVCORCCAthelstan King | A |
Lord among Earls | B |
Bracelet bestower and | C |
Baron of Barons | D |
He with his brother | E |
Edmund Atheling | A |
Gaining a lifelong | A |
Glory in battle | F |
Slew with the sword edge | G |
There by Brunanburh | E |
Brake the shield wall | H |
Hew'd the lindenwood | C |
Hack'd the battleshield | C |
Sons of Edward with hammer'd brands | I |
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Theirs was a greatness | J |
Got from their Grandsires | J |
Theirs that so often in | K |
Strife with their enemies | J |
Struck for their hoards and their hearths and their homes | J |
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Bow'd the spoiler | E |
Bent the Scotsman | L |
Fell the shipcrews | J |
Doom'd to the death | M |
All the field with blood of the fighters | J |
Flow'd from when first the great | C |
Sun star of morningtide | C |
Lamp of the Lord God | C |
Lord everlasting | A |
Glode over earth till the glorious creature | E |
Sank to his setting | A |
There lay many a man | N |
Marr'd by the javelin | L |
Men of the Northland | C |
Shot over shield | C |
There was the Scotsman | L |
Weary of war | E |
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We the West Saxons | J |
Long as the daylight | C |
Lasted in companies | J |
Troubled the track of the host that we hated | C |
Grimly with swords that were sharp from the grindstone | O |
Fiercely we hack'd at the flyers before us | J |
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Mighty the Mercian | O |
Hard was his hand play | P |
Sparing not any of | Q |
Those that with Anlaf | Q |
Warriors over the | R |
Weltering waters | J |
Borne in the bark's bosom | S |
Drew to this island | C |
Doom'd to the death | M |
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Five young kings put asleep by the sword stroke | A |
Seven strong earls of the army of Anlaf | Q |
Fell on the war field numberless numbers | J |
Shipmen and Scotsmen | O |
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Then the Norse leader | E |
Dire was his need of it | C |
Few were his following | A |
Fled to his warship | T |
Fleeted his vessel to sea with the king in it | C |
Saving his life on the fallow flood | C |
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Also the crafty one | O |
Constantinus | J |
Crept to his north again | O |
Hoar headed hero | E |
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Slender warrant had | C |
He to be proud of | Q |
The welcome of war knives | J |
He that was reft of his | J |
Folk and his friends that had | C |
Fallen in conflict | C |
Leaving his son too | C |
Lost in the carnage | U |
Mangled to morsels | J |
A youngster in war | E |
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Slender reason had | C |
He to be glad of | Q |
The clash of the war glaive | Q |
Traitor and trickster | E |
And spurner of treaties | J |
He nor had Anlaf | Q |
With armies so broken | O |
A reason for bragging | A |
That they had the better | E |
In perils of battle | F |
On places of slaughter | E |
The struggle of standards | J |
The rush of the javelins | J |
The crash of the charges | J |
The wielding of weapons | J |
The play that they play'd with | V |
The children of Edward | C |
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Then with their nail'd prows | J |
Parted the Norsemen a | R |
Blood redden'd relic of | Q |
Javelins over | E |
The jarring breaker the deep sea billow | E |
Shaping their way toward Dyflen again | O |
Shamed in their souls | J |
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Also the brethren | O |
King and Atheling | A |
Each in his glory | E |
Went to his own in his own West Saxonland | C |
Glad of the war | E |
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Many a carcase they left to be carrion | O |
Many a livid one many a sallow skin | O |
Left for the white tail'd eagle to tear it and | C |
Left for the horny nibb'd raven to rend it and | C |
Gave to the garbaging war hawk to gorge it and | C |
That gray beast the wolf of the weald | C |
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Never had huger | E |
Slaughter of heroes | J |
Slain by the sword edge | G |
Such as old writers | J |
Have writ of in histories | J |
Hapt in this isle since | J |
Up from the East hither | E |
Saxon and Angle from | S |
Over the broad billow | E |
Broke into Britain with | V |
Haughty war workers who | C |
Harried the Welshman when | O |
Earls that were lured by the | R |
Hunger of glory gat | C |
Hold of the land | C |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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