Hamar-made Matches Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HIHJ HKHK DLDL EKEK FMFM NON DPDP QCR OSCS OECE HTHT UVUV WOW DXDX| 'Here your Hamar made matches ' | A |
| Of them these verses I sang | B |
| A thought to which humor attaches | C |
| But yet to my heart sparks sprang | B |
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| Sparks from the box side flying | D |
| Sank deep in my memory | E |
| Till in a light undying | D |
| Two eyes cast their spell on me | E |
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| Light on the fire that's present | F |
| When faith blazes forth in deed | G |
| Know that to every peasant | F |
| Those eyes sent a light in need | G |
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| Sent to souls without measure | H |
| The flame of love's message broad | I |
| Gathering in one treasure | H |
| Fatherland home and God | J |
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| For it was Herman Anker | H |
| Took of his fathers' gold | K |
| Loaned it as wisdom's banker | H |
| Spread riches of thought untold | K |
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| Scattered it wide as living | D |
| Seed for the soil to enwrap | L |
| Flowers spring from his giving | D |
| Over all Norway's lap | L |
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| Flowers spring forth though stony | E |
| The ground where it fell and cold | K |
| Never did patrimony | E |
| Bear fruitage so many fold | K |
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| Heed this Norwegian peasant | F |
| Heed it you townsman too | M |
| That fruit of love's seed may be present | F |
| Our thanks must fall fresh as dew | M |
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| 'Here your Hamar made matches ' | - |
| My thanks kindle fast And oh | N |
| This song at your heart strings catches | O |
| That kindling your thanks may glow | N |
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| The matches hold them in hiding | D |
| Scratching one you will find | P |
| The light with a warmth abiding | D |
| Carries them to his mind | P |
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| 'Here your Hamar made matches ' | - |
| Only to strike one here | Q |
| Our thanks far away dispatches | C |
| With peace his fair home to cheer | R |
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| His matches in thousands of houses | O |
| In great and in small as well | S |
| The light that thanksgiving arouses | C |
| Shall scatter the darkness fell | S |
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| His matches in thousands of houses | O |
| Some eve from his factory | E |
| He'll see how thanksgiving arouses | C |
| The land and its love flames free | E |
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| He'll see in the eyes so tender | H |
| Through gleams that his matches woke | T |
| The thanks that his nation would render | H |
| His glistening wreath of oak | T |
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| He'll feel that Norway with double | U |
| The warmth of other lands glows | V |
| The harvest must more be than trouble | U |
| When faith in its future grows | V |
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| 'Here your Hamar made matches ' | - |
| No phosphorus poison more | W |
| The bearer of light up catches | O |
| The work of the school before | W |
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| From home all the poison taking | D |
| Hastening the light's advance | X |
| Longings to warm light waking | D |
| That lay there and had no chance | X |
Bjarnstjerne Bjarnson
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