Magnus The Blind Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAC AC AC DADD EF E| 'Oh let me look once again and see | A |
| Starlight the heavens o'ersweeping ' | B |
| Begged young Magnus on bended knee | A |
| It was sore to see | A |
| All the women afar were weeping | C |
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| 'Oh till to morrow The mountains to see | A |
| And ocean its blue displaying | C |
| Only once and then let it be ' | - |
| Thus he bent the knee | A |
| While his friends for mercy were praying | C |
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| 'Oh in the church let God's blood so bright | D |
| Be the last blessing that greets me | A |
| It shall bathe with a flood of light | D |
| Through eternal night | D |
| My eyes when the darkness meets me ' | - |
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| Deep sank the steel and each seeing eye | E |
| Lightning like night had swallowed | F |
| 'Magnus King Magnus good by good by ' | - |
| 'Oh good by good by | E |
| You who eighteen summers me followed ' | - |
Bjarnstjerne Bjarnson
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