Norwegian Seamen's Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFGGHH IIJJKKLL MMNNOOPP QQRSTTBB UUVVWXYY BBZZA2A2QQ| Norwegian seamen are | A |
| A folk grown strong 'neath sail and spar | A |
| Where boats can find a way | B |
| The best men there are they | B |
| On high seas or at home | C |
| In calm or when the storm waves comb | C |
| To God their prayer they make | D |
| Their lives they gladly stake | D |
| - | |
| Incessant is their strife | E |
| They wage with death a war for life | E |
| And dear their souls they sell | F |
| In conflicts none can tell | F |
| All that is commonplace | G |
| In history seldom leaves its trace | G |
| And often none is there | H |
| The tidings home to bear | H |
| - | |
| But fishing boats in need | I |
| Have shown so many a daring deed | I |
| Of courage fine and skill | J |
| Though unrecorded still | J |
| And many a seaman's head | K |
| A wreath of sea weed wore when dead | K |
| Whose name should shine in gold | L |
| Among great heroes bold | L |
| - | |
| Saint Olaf's Cross's praise | M |
| Would on that pilot fitly blaze | M |
| Who saved a hundred men | N |
| And hundred once again | N |
| To many a boy so young | O |
| Who riding home to boat's keel clung | O |
| His father set on board | P |
| We honor should accord | P |
| - | |
| In Norway's mountain coast | Q |
| Our land's own mother breast we boast | Q |
| With food for us and tears | R |
| For sons whom danger nears | S |
| In it each deed has lot | T |
| And there no brave son is forgot | T |
| From Hafurfjord's great day | B |
| To the last castaway | B |
| - | |
| This each one felt and found | U |
| Who homeward came and looked around | U |
| This each one felt who went | V |
| In the last look he sent | V |
| They felt the ocean o'er | W |
| Their ships our country's fortune bore | X |
| Honor and power it sought | Y |
| And these the white sails brought | Y |
| - | |
| Hurrah for them to day | B |
| Who the Norwegian flag display | B |
| Hurrah for pilots true | Z |
| Who forth to meet them flew | Z |
| Hurrah for them who ply | A2 |
| Their fishing boats 'twixt sea and sky | A2 |
| Hurrah for all our boast | Q |
| Our skerry skirted coast | Q |
Bjarnstjerne Bjarnson
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