Olaf Trygvason Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCD EEFG HHFG IIJG KLMG| Broad the sails o'er the North Sea go | A |
| High on deck in the morning glow | A |
| Erling Skjalgsson from Sole | B |
| Scans all the sea toward Denmark | C |
| 'Cometh never Olaf Trygvason ' | D |
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| Six and fifty the ships are there | E |
| Sails are let down toward Denmark stare | E |
| Sun reddened men then murmur | F |
| 'Where is the great Long Serpent | G |
| Cometh never Olaf Trygvason ' | - |
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| When the sun in the second dawn | H |
| Cloudward rising no mast had drawn | H |
| Grew to a storm their clamor | F |
| 'Where is the great Long Serpent | G |
| Cometh never Olaf Trygvason ' | - |
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| Silent silent that moment bound | I |
| Stood they all for from ocean's ground | I |
| Sighed round the fleet a muffled | J |
| 'Taken the great Long Serpent | G |
| Fallen is Olaf Trygvason ' | - |
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| Ever since through so many a year | K |
| Norway's ships must beside them hear | L |
| Clearest in nights of moonshine | M |
| 'Taken the great Long Serpent | G |
| Fallen is Olaf Trygvason ' | - |
Bjarnstjerne Bjarnson
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