Our Forefathers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFCGCG EHEHEIEI| High memories with power | A |
| Shine through the wintry North | B |
| On every peak's white tower | A |
| On Kattegat so swarth | B |
| All is so still and spacious | C |
| The Northern Lights flow free | D |
| Creating bright and gracious | C |
| A day of memory | D |
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| Each deed the North defending | E |
| Each thought for greater might | F |
| A star like word is sending | E |
| Down through the frosty night | F |
| To hope they call and boldness | C |
| And call with double cheer | G |
| To him defying coldness | C |
| On guard the Eider near | G |
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| No anxious shadows clouding | E |
| No languid lukewarm mist | H |
| Our heaven of mem'ries shrouding | E |
| This eve of battle tryst | H |
| May as of yore while ringing | E |
| The bells unseen loud swelled | I |
| Come leaders vict'ry bringing | E |
| Whom th' army ne'er beheld | I |
Bjarnstjerne Bjarnson
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