My Fatherland Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BBCDDC EEFGGF HHIJJI KKLMML NNOPPO| A | |
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| I will fight for my land | B |
| I will work for my land | B |
| Will it foster with love in my faith in my child | C |
| I will eke every gain | D |
| I will seek boot for bane | D |
| From its easternmost bound to the western sea wild | C |
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| Here is sunshine enough | E |
| Here is seed earth enough | E |
| If by us if by us all love's duty were done | F |
| Here is will to create | G |
| Though our burdens be great | G |
| We can lift up our land if we all lift as one | F |
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| In the past we went wide | H |
| O'er the sea's surging tide | H |
| And the Norman's high walls stand on many a shore | I |
| But our flag flies its way | J |
| Ever farther to day | J |
| And is red with life's vigor as never before | I |
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| Great our future shall be | K |
| For the Northern lands three | K |
| Shall unite once again and their true selves shall know | L |
| Give your strength and your deed | M |
| Where you nearest see need | M |
| As a brook to the river that forward shall flow | L |
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| Yes this land where we dwell | N |
| Oh we love it so well | N |
| All was all it is all it can be again | O |
| As our love had its birth | P |
| In this homeland's dear earth | P |
| Shall the seed of our love bring it increase again | O |
Bjarnstjerne Bjarnson
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