Norse Nature Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDE FFGGHH IICCIEJJ BBKKKK CCCCBB KKCCII IICCII KKCCBB IIIILL MMKKKK EECCNN KKKKII

In Ringerike During The Student Meeting OfA
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We wander and sing with gleeB
Of glorious Norway fair to seeB
Let sweetly the tones go twiningC
In colors so softly shiningC
On mountain forest fjord and shoreD
'Neath heaven's azure arching o'erE
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The warmth of the nation's heartF
The depth the strength its songs impartF
Here opens its eyes to greet youG
Rejoicing just now to meet youG
And giving grateful for the chanceH
In love a self revealing glanceH
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Here wakened our history firstI
Here Halfdan dreamed of greatness erstI
In vision of hope beholdingC
The kingdom's future unfoldingC
AndI
NoreE
stood and summons gaveJ
While forth to conquest called the waveJ
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Here singing we must unrollB
Of our dear land the pictured scrollB
Let calm turn to storm of wildnessK
Bring might into bonds of mildnessK
Then Norsemen mustering each shall seeK
This is our land's whole historyK
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To them first our way we wingC
The hundred harbors in the springC
Where follow fond love and yearningC
When sea ward the ships are turningC
For Norway's weal pure prayers exhaleB
From sixty thousand men that sailB
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See sloping the skerried coastsK
With gulls and whales and fishing postsK
And vessels in shelter ridingC
While boats o'er the sea are glidingC
And nets in fjord and seines in soundI
And white with spawn the ocean's groundI
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See Lofoten's tumult grandI
Where tow'ring cliffs in ocean standI
Whose summits the fogs are cleavingC
Beneath them the surges heavingC
And all is darkness mystery dreadI
But 'mid the tumult sails are spreadI
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Here ships of the Arctic seaK
Through snow and gloom their course must beK
Commands from the masthead fallingC
The boats toward the ice are callingC
And shot on shot and seal on sealB
And souls and bodies strong as steelB
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On mountains we now shall guestI
When eventide to all brings restI
In dairy on highland meadowI
On hay field 'neath slanting shadowI
While to the alphorn's tender toneL
Great Nature's voice responds aloneL
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But quickly we must awayM
If a the land we would surveyM
The mines of our metal treasuresK
The hills of our hunters' pleasuresK
The foam white river's rush and noiseK
The timber driver's foot sure poiseK
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Returning we linger hereE
These valleys broad to us are dearE
Whose men in their faithful livingC
To Norway are honor givingC
Their fathers strong in brain and brawnN
Lent luster to our morning dawnN
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We wander and sing with gleeK
Of glorious Norway fair to seeK
Our present to labor binds usK
Each how of the past reminds usK
Our future shall be sure and brightI
As God we trust and do the rightI

Bjarnstjerne Bjarnson



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