Norse Nature Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDE FFGGHH IICCIEJJ BBKKKK CCCCBB KKCCII IICCII KKCCBB IIIILL MMKKKK EECCNN KKKKIIIn Ringerike During The Student Meeting Of | A |
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We wander and sing with glee | B |
Of glorious Norway fair to see | B |
Let sweetly the tones go twining | C |
In colors so softly shining | C |
On mountain forest fjord and shore | D |
'Neath heaven's azure arching o'er | E |
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The warmth of the nation's heart | F |
The depth the strength its songs impart | F |
Here opens its eyes to greet you | G |
Rejoicing just now to meet you | G |
And giving grateful for the chance | H |
In love a self revealing glance | H |
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Here wakened our history first | I |
Here Halfdan dreamed of greatness erst | I |
In vision of hope beholding | C |
The kingdom's future unfolding | C |
And | I |
Nore | E |
stood and summons gave | J |
While forth to conquest called the wave | J |
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Here singing we must unroll | B |
Of our dear land the pictured scroll | B |
Let calm turn to storm of wildness | K |
Bring might into bonds of mildness | K |
Then Norsemen mustering each shall see | K |
This is our land's whole history | K |
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To them first our way we wing | C |
The hundred harbors in the spring | C |
Where follow fond love and yearning | C |
When sea ward the ships are turning | C |
For Norway's weal pure prayers exhale | B |
From sixty thousand men that sail | B |
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See sloping the skerried coasts | K |
With gulls and whales and fishing posts | K |
And vessels in shelter riding | C |
While boats o'er the sea are gliding | C |
And nets in fjord and seines in sound | I |
And white with spawn the ocean's ground | I |
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See Lofoten's tumult grand | I |
Where tow'ring cliffs in ocean stand | I |
Whose summits the fogs are cleaving | C |
Beneath them the surges heaving | C |
And all is darkness mystery dread | I |
But 'mid the tumult sails are spread | I |
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Here ships of the Arctic sea | K |
Through snow and gloom their course must be | K |
Commands from the masthead falling | C |
The boats toward the ice are calling | C |
And shot on shot and seal on seal | B |
And souls and bodies strong as steel | B |
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On mountains we now shall guest | I |
When eventide to all brings rest | I |
In dairy on highland meadow | I |
On hay field 'neath slanting shadow | I |
While to the alphorn's tender tone | L |
Great Nature's voice responds alone | L |
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But quickly we must away | M |
If a the land we would survey | M |
The mines of our metal treasures | K |
The hills of our hunters' pleasures | K |
The foam white river's rush and noise | K |
The timber driver's foot sure poise | K |
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Returning we linger here | E |
These valleys broad to us are dear | E |
Whose men in their faithful living | C |
To Norway are honor giving | C |
Their fathers strong in brain and brawn | N |
Lent luster to our morning dawn | N |
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We wander and sing with glee | K |
Of glorious Norway fair to see | K |
Our present to labor binds us | K |
Each how of the past reminds us | K |
Our future shall be sure and bright | I |
As God we trust and do the right | I |
Bjarnstjerne Bjarnson
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