Beowulf (the Prelude) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPHQHRS TUVWX YZOA2ZZB2C2ZBPHZB2GO GD2DHZZHE2B2F2Z| PRELUDE OF THE FOUNDER OF THE DANISH HOUSE | A |
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| LO praise of the prowess of people kings | B |
| of spear armed Danes in days long sped | C |
| we have heard and what honor the athelings won | D |
| Oft Scyld the Scefing from squadroned foes | E |
| from many a tribe the mead bench tore | F |
| awing the earls Since erst he lay | G |
| friendless a foundling fate repaid him | H |
| for he waxed under welkin in wealth he throve | I |
| till before him the folk both far and near | J |
| who house by the whale path heard his mandate | K |
| gave him gifts a good king he | L |
| To him an heir was afterward born | M |
| a son in his halls whom heaven sent | N |
| to favor the folk feeling their woe | O |
| that erst they had lacked an earl for leader | P |
| so long a while the Lord endowed him | H |
| the Wielder of Wonder with world's renown | Q |
| Famed was this Beowulf far flew the boast of him | H |
| son of Scyld in the Scandian lands | R |
| So becomes it a youth to quit him well | S |
| with his father's friends by fee and gift | T |
| that to aid him aged in after days | U |
| come warriors willing should war draw nigh | V |
| liegemen loyal by lauded deeds | W |
| shall an earl have honor in every clan | X |
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| Forth he fared at the fated moment | Y |
| sturdy Scyld to the shelter of God | Z |
| Then they bore him over to ocean's billow | O |
| loving clansmen as late he charged them | A2 |
| while wielded words the winsome Scyld | Z |
| the leader beloved who long had ruled | Z |
| In the roadstead rocked a ring dight vessel | B2 |
| ice flecked outbound atheling's barge | C2 |
| there laid they down their darling lord | Z |
| on the breast of the boat the breaker of rings | B |
| by the mast the mighty one Many a treasure | P |
| fetched from far was freighted with him | H |
| No ship have I known so nobly dight | Z |
| with weapons of war and weeds of battle | B2 |
| with breastplate and blade on his bosom lay | G |
| a heaped hoard that hence should go | O |
| far o'er the flood with him floating away | G |
| No less these loaded the lordly gifts | D2 |
| thanes' huge treasure than those had done | D |
| who in former time forth had sent him | H |
| sole on the seas a suckling child | Z |
| High o'er his head they hoist the standard | Z |
| a gold wove banner let billows take him | H |
| gave him to ocean Grave were their spirits | E2 |
| mournful their mood No man is able | B2 |
| to say in sooth no son of the halls | F2 |
| no hero 'neath heaven who harbored that freight | Z |
Anonymous Olde English
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