At A Banquet For Professor Ludv. Kr. Daa Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDD EBEBFFAA GH HIIJJ KLKLKKMM NONPQQRR SBSBTTBB| Youthful friends here a circle form | A |
| Elder foes now surrender | B |
| Feel among us in safety warm | A |
| Toward you our hearts are tender | B |
| Once again on a hard fought day | C |
| Hero like you have led the way | C |
| Smiting all that before you stood | D |
| But now be good | D |
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| With no hubbub without champagne | E |
| Dress suit and party collar | B |
| We would honor o'er viands plain | E |
| Grateful our 'grand old scholar' | B |
| When all quiet are wind and wave | F |
| Seldom we see this pilot brave | F |
| When storm surges our ship might whelm | A |
| He takes the helm | A |
| - | |
| Takes the helm and through thick and thin | G |
| Clear are his old eyes burning | H |
| Steers the course with his trusty 'grin ' | - |
| Straight where the others are turning | H |
| Thanks gave to him I know not who | I |
| For he scolded the skipper too | I |
| Back he went to his home right soon | J |
| We had the boon | J |
| - | |
| He has felt what it is to go | K |
| Hated till truth gains the battle | L |
| He has felt what it is to know | K |
| Blows that from both sides rattle | L |
| He has felt what the cost is so | K |
| Forward the present its path to show | K |
| He whose strength had such heights attained | M |
| Stood all disdained | M |
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| Would that Norway soon grew so great | N |
| That it with justice rewarded | O |
| Heroes who its true weal create | N |
| Who are no laggards sordid | P |
| Shall we always so slowly crawl | Q |
| Split forever in factions small | Q |
| Idly counting each ill that ails | R |
| No Set the sails | R |
| - | |
| Set the sails for the larger life | S |
| Whereto our nation has power | B |
| Daily life is with death but rife | S |
| If there's not growth every hour | B |
| Rally to war for the cause of right | T |
| Sing 'neath the standard of honor bright | T |
| Sail with faith in our God secure | B |
| And strong endure | B |
Bjarnstjerne Bjarnson
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