Over The Lofty Mountains Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAACC DBDDEE FBFFCC GBGGCC HBHHAA IBIIFF HBHHCC HBHHHH| Wonder I must what I once may see | A |
| Over the lofty mountains | B |
| Eyes shall meet only snow may be | A |
| Standing here each evergreen tree | A |
| Over the heights is yearning | C |
| Will it be long in learning | C |
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| Pinions strong bear the eagle away | D |
| Over the lofty mountains | B |
| Forth to the young and vigorous day | D |
| There he exults in the swift wild play | D |
| Rests where his spirit orders | E |
| Sees all the wide world's borders | E |
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| Full leaved the apple tree wishes naught | F |
| Over the lofty mountains | B |
| Spreading when summer hither is brought | F |
| Waiting till next time in its thought | F |
| Many a bird it is swinging | C |
| Knowing not what they are singing | C |
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| He who has longed for twenty years | G |
| Over the lofty mountains | B |
| He who knows that he never nears | G |
| Smaller feels with the lapsing years | G |
| Heeds what the bird is singing | C |
| Cheerily to its swinging | C |
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| Garrulous bird what will you here | H |
| Over the lofty mountains | B |
| Surely your nest was there less drear | H |
| Taller the trees the outlook clear | H |
| Will you then only bring me | A |
| Longings but naught to wing me | A |
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| Shall I then never never go | I |
| Over the lofty mountains | B |
| Shall to my thoughts this wall say No | I |
| Stand with terror of ice and snow | I |
| Barring the way unwended | F |
| Coffin me when life is ended | F |
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| Out will I Out Oh so far far far | H |
| Over the lofty mountains | B |
| Here is this cramping confining bar | H |
| Baffling my thoughts that so buoyant are | H |
| Lord Let me try the scaling | C |
| Suffer no final failing | C |
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| Sometime I know I shall rise and soar | H |
| Over the lofty mountains | B |
| Hast Thou already ajar Thy door | H |
| Good is Thy home Yet Lord I implore | H |
| Hold not the gates asunder | H |
| Leave me my longing wonder | H |
Bjarnstjerne Bjarnson
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