Good Cheer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE GGHIIJ KKLMML NNHOOJ PPQRRQ PPQSSQ PPLTTL UUQVVQ PPQWWQ PPQXYZA2Q B2PB2 C2ZUC2 D2D2PPPP PB2CCE2PPE2 F2F2C2PPC2So 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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But first my poet path shall be | B2 |
With veneration unto | P |
thee | B2 |
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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 |
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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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