Good Cheer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE GGHIIJ KKLMML NNHOOJ PPQRRQ PPQSSQ PPLTTL UUQVVQ PPQWWQ PPQXYZA2Q B2PB2 C2ZUC2 D2D2PPPP PB2CCE2PPE2 F2F2C2PPC2| So let these songs their story tell | A |
| To all who in the Northland dwell | A |
| Since many friends request it | B |
| That Finland's folk with them belong | C |
| In the wide realm of Northern song | C |
| I grateful must attest it | B |
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| I send these songs and now I find | D |
| Most of them have riot what my mind | D |
| Has deepest borne and favored | E |
| Some are too hasty some too brief | F |
| Some long in stock have come to grief | F |
| Some with raw youth are flavored | E |
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| I lived far more than e'er I sang | G |
| Thought ire and mirth unceasing rang | G |
| Around me where I guested | H |
| To be where loud life's battles call | I |
| For me was well nigh more than all | I |
| My pen on page arrested | J |
| - | |
| What's true and strong has growing room | K |
| And will perhaps eternal bloom | K |
| Without black ink's salvation | L |
| And he will be who least it planned | M |
| But in life's surging dared to stand | M |
| The best bard for his nation | L |
| - | |
| I heard once of a Spanish feast | N |
| Within the ring a rustic beast | N |
| A horse to fight was fated | H |
| In came a tiger from his cage | O |
| Who walked about his foe to gauge | O |
| And crouching down then waited | J |
| - | |
| The people clapped and laughed and cheered | P |
| The tiger sprang the horse upreared | P |
| But none could see him bleeding | Q |
| The tiger tumbling shrinks and backs | R |
| Before the horse's rustic whacks | R |
| Lies on his head naught heeding | Q |
| - | |
| Then men and women hooted hissed | P |
| With glaring eyes and clench d fist | P |
| Out o'er the balcony bending | Q |
| With shouts the tiger's heart they tease | S |
| Their thirst for blood soon to appease | S |
| To onset new him sending | Q |
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| The people clapped and laughed and cheered | P |
| The tiger sprang the horse upreared | P |
| No blood to see was given | L |
| For fortune held the horse too dear | T |
| To him the tiger could not near | T |
| In flying curves hoof driven | L |
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| To say who won I will not try | U |
| For lo this rustic horse am I | U |
| And on the conflict's going | Q |
| The city though where it occurs | V |
| And where it cheers and laughter stirs | V |
| Is known without my showing | Q |
| - | |
| I fight but have no hate or spite | P |
| From what I love draw gladness bright | P |
| My right to wrath reserving | Q |
| It is my blood my soul that goes | W |
| In every line of all my blows | W |
| And guides their course unswerving | Q |
| - | |
| But as I stand here now to day | P |
| Nor grudge nor vengeance can me sway | P |
| To think that foes I'm facing | Q |
| So in return some friendship give | X |
| To one who for the | Y |
| cause | Z |
| would live | A2 |
| With love the North embracing | Q |
| - | |
| But first my poet path shall be | B2 |
| With veneration unto | P |
| thee | B2 |
| - | |
| Who fill'st the North with wonder | C2 |
| In wrath thou dawn didst prophesy | Z |
| Behind the North's dark morning sky | U |
| That lightnings shook and thunder | C2 |
| - | |
| Then milder thou by sea and slope | D2 |
| The fount of saga faith and hope | D2 |
| Mad'st flow for every peasant | P |
| Now from the snow years' mountain side | P |
| Thou seest with time's returning tide | P |
| Thine own high image present | P |
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| To | P |
| thee | B2 |
| then in whose spring of song | C |
| Finland's 'the thousand lakes' belong | C |
| And sound their thrilling sorrow | E2 |
| Our Northern soul forever heard | P |
| Keeps watch and ward in poet's word | P |
| 'Gainst Eastern millions' morrow | E2 |
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| But when I stand in our own home | F2 |
| One greets me from the starry dome | F2 |
| With wealth of light and power | C2 |
| There shines he HENRIK WERGELAND | P |
| Out over Norway's pallid strand | P |
| In memory's clear hour | C2 |
Bjarnstjerne Bjarnson
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