Our Country 1859 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD DDDD EEFF DDGG HHII DDJJ DDKK| A land there is lying near far northern snow | A |
| Where only the fissures life's springtime may know | A |
| But surging the sea tells of great deeds done | B |
| And loved is the land as a mother by son | B |
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| What time we were little and sat on her knee | C |
| She gave us her saga with pictures to see | C |
| We read till our eyes opened wide and moist | D |
| While nodding and smiling she mute rejoiced | D |
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| We went to the fjord and in wonder beheld | D |
| The ashen gray bauta that record of eld | D |
| Still older she stood and her silence kept | D |
| While stone studded hows all around us slept | D |
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| Our hands she then took and away o'er the hill | E |
| She led to the church ever lowly and still | E |
| Where humbly our forefathers knelt to pray | F |
| And mildly she taught us Do ye as they | F |
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| She scattered her snow on the mountain's steep side | D |
| Then bade on swift skis her young manhood to glide | D |
| The North Sea she maddened with scourge of gales | G |
| Then bade her young manhood to hoist the sails | G |
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| Of beautiful maidens she gathered a throng | H |
| To follow our daring with smiles and with song | H |
| While she sat enthroned with her saga's scroll | I |
| In mantle of moonlight beneath the Pole | I |
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| Then Forward go forward was borne on the wind | D |
| With forefathers' aim and with forefathers' mind | D |
| For freedom for Norsehood for Norway hurrah | J |
| While echoing mountains voiced their hurrah | J |
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| Then life giving fountains burst forth on our sight | D |
| Then we were baptized with her spirit of might | D |
| Then gleamed o'er the mountains a vision high | K |
| That summons us onward until we die | K |
Bjarnstjerne Bjarnson
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