At Michael Sars's Grave Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFF GGHHFF IIJJKK HHLLMM NNEEOO| Ever he would roam | A |
| Toward th' eternal home | A |
| From the least life deep in ocean | B |
| To each gleam of stars in motion | B |
| Worth of all he weighed | C |
| Now the Lord lends aid | C |
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| Still he passed beyond | D |
| Softly dreaming fond | D |
| Nature met him as her lover | E |
| God with strength his soul shall cover | E |
| 'Mid the starry throng | F |
| Through the spheres' pure song | F |
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| Even here on earth | G |
| Harmony's sweet birth | G |
| When discovery new truth sunders | H |
| When the small reveals its wonders | H |
| Filled his soul with song | F |
| For the ages long | F |
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| Where his watch he kept | I |
| Eyes a hundred swept | I |
| Where millenniums sand assembled | J |
| Where the tiniest life pulse trembled | J |
| There he sought the clue | K |
| Silent wise and true | K |
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| In a water glass | H |
| Searching he saw pass | H |
| All the ocean's life his thinking | L |
| To unfathomed deeps was sinking | L |
| Where lay riddles locked | M |
| There he came and knocked | M |
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| Fair our fatherland | N |
| While such faith shall stand | N |
| With an eye so true and tender | E |
| With a sense so fine for splendor | E |
| In the small and still | O |
| Great ends we fulfil | O |
Bjarnstjerne Bjarnson
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