P. A. Munch Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEFACCDFFAGA HFHF IAIA JDJD KFKF FFHCDDHLAAAMNFOCOF DOA PQCHMHCDHHEDDAOCDDFF DAACA RADCAFAAAAAHAAOAAHAH HHF CSFAOFAF FHHTR FRUFDQDAFDDHAFHCH AHCDDDC OAAVOACAAADDFAAAAAAF NOACDACAAAAAA AAAAAADAAOADAAAA DAAFACODFA DDCOF CFC D AAWAAA FAFA CAAAFAA AFAAA DAC| Many forms belong to greatness | A |
| He who now has left us bore it | B |
| As a doubt that made him sleepless | A |
| But at last gave revelation | C |
| As a sight enhancing power | D |
| That gave visions joined with anguish | E |
| Over all beyond our seeing | F |
| As a flight on labor's pinions | A |
| From the thought unto the certain | C |
| Thence aloft to intuition | C |
| Restless haste and changeful ardor | D |
| God inspired and unceasing | F |
| Through the wide world ever storming | F |
| Took its load of thoughts and doubtings | A |
| Bore them threw them off and took them | G |
| Never tired never listless | A |
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| Still for he had one haven of rest | H |
| Family life peace bestowing | F |
| Powers of light gave repose to his breast | H |
| Calm 'mid the strife of his knowing | F |
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| Softly with music his wife led him in | I |
| Unto the sweet smelling birches | A |
| Unto the flowers and still deeper in | I |
| Under the fir forest's churches | A |
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| Daughters drew near him in love secure | J |
| Cooling his forehead's hot fever | D |
| Gently their message of innocence pure | J |
| Made him a childlike believer | D |
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| Or he joined glad in their light hearted game | K |
| Colors and music surrounding | F |
| Gone were the clouds in the heavens came | K |
| Sparkling of star light abounding | F |
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| But as in an autumn evening | F |
| Silent dreamy dark sheet lightning | F |
| Wakens thought and feeling stormward | H |
| Or as in a boat a sudden | C |
| Stroke when gliding as in slumber | D |
| On between the cliffs that tower | D |
| In a quiet balmy spring night | H |
| But a single stroke and soft then | L |
| Echo takes it up and tosses | A |
| To and fro 'mid walls of mountains | A |
| Thrush and grouse send forth their wood calls | A |
| Deer rise up and listen keenly | M |
| Stones are rolling all are up now | N |
| Dogs are barking bells are clanging | F |
| Ushering in the strife of daytime | O |
| Thus could oft a recollection | C |
| Down light falling in that playtime | O |
| Waken all his thought and doubting | F |
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| Then it roved the wide world over | D |
| Then it hottest burned within him | O |
| But it lavished light for others | A |
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| Rise of races spread of language | P |
| Birth of names all laws' close kinship | Q |
| Small and great in equal passion | C |
| Equal haste and doubting goal ward | H |
| There where others stones saw only | M |
| He saw precious gems that glistened | H |
| Sunk his shaft the mine to deepen | C |
| And where others thought the treasure | D |
| Sure and safe for years a hundred | H |
| Doubt possessed him as he burrowed | H |
| Day and night and saw it vanish | E |
| But the unrest that gave power | D |
| Made him oft the goal pass over | D |
| While to others he gave clearness | A |
| Intuitions new deceived him | O |
| Therefore where he once had striven | C |
| Thither he would turn him never | D |
| Changed his ground and shifted labor | D |
| From his own thought conquests fleeing | F |
| But his thoughts pursued untiring | F |
| Followed growing as the fire | D |
| Kindled in Brazilian forests | A |
| Storm wind makes and storm wind follows | A |
| Where before no foot had trodden | C |
| Ways were burned for many millions | A |
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| Northward stretches Scandinavia | R |
| 'Mid the fog that dims the Ice sea | A |
| Darkness of the months of winter | D |
| Lays its weight on sea and mountain | C |
| Like our lands are too our peoples | A |
| Their beginnings prehistoric | F |
| Stretch afar in fog and darkness | A |
| But as through the fog a lighthouse | A |
| Or as Northern Lights o'er darkness | A |
| Gleamed his thought with light and guidance | A |
| When with filial fond remembrance | A |
| Tenderly he sought and questioned | H |
| Searching for his people's pathways | A |
| Names and graves and rusty weapons | A |
| Stones and tools their answer gave him | O |
| Through primeval Asian forests | A |
| Over steppes and sands of deserts | A |
| 'Neath a thousand years that moldered | H |
| Saw he caravan made footsteps | A |
| Seek a new home in the Northland | H |
| And as they the rivers followed | H |
| Followed them his thought abundant | H |
| Into Nature's All full flowing | F |
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| See his restless soul's creation | C |
| Harmony of truth he yearned for | S |
| Found it not but wonder working | F |
| New discoveries and pathways | A |
| Like those alchemists aforetime | O |
| Who though gold was all their seeking | F |
| Found not that but mighty forces | A |
| Which to day the world are moving | F |
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| Deepest ground of all his being | F |
| Was the polar power of contrast | H |
| For his thought to music wakened | H |
| By the touch of | T |
| Northern Saga | R |
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| Vibrated melodious longing | F |
| Toward the | R |
| South | U |
| forever tending | F |
| In his eye the lambent fire | D |
| Of his thought the glint showed kinship | Q |
| With the free improvisator | D |
| In the land of warmth and vineyards | A |
| And his swiftly changing feeling | F |
| And his all consuming ardor | D |
| That could toil the livelong winter | D |
| Till caprice the fruit discarded | H |
| That immeasurable richness | A |
| Wherein thoughts and moods and music | F |
| Joy and sorrow jest and earnest | H |
| Gleamed and played without cessation | C |
| All a Southern day resembled | H |
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| Therefore was his life a journey | A |
| Towards the South in constant movement | H |
| Through the mists of intuition | C |
| From the darker to the brighter | D |
| From the colder to the warmer | D |
| On the bridge of ceaseless labor | D |
| Bearing over sea and mountain | C |
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| Oh the time with wife beside him | O |
| And his bonny playmate sisters | A |
| Gladsome children winsome daughters | A |
| When he stood where evening sunshine | V |
| Glowed on Capitol and Forum | O |
| Stood where from the great world city | A |
| As from history's very fountain | C |
| Knowledge wells in streams of fullness | A |
| Where a clearness large and cloudless | A |
| Falls upon the bygone ages | A |
| That have laid them down to rest here | D |
| Where to him the Northern searcher | D |
| It would seem he had been straying | F |
| Too long lost in history's fogland | A |
| Rowing round the deep fjords' surface | A |
| Stood where dead men burst the earth clods | A |
| And themselves come forth for witness | A |
| In their heavy marble togas | A |
| Where the goddesses of Delos | A |
| In the frescoed halls are dancing | F |
| As two thousand years before now | N |
| Pantheon and Coliseum | O |
| In their spacious fate have sheltered | A |
| All the world's swift evolution | C |
| Where a Hermes from that corner | D |
| Saw the footsteps firm of Cato | A |
| Pontifex in the procession | C |
| Saw then Nero as Apollo | A |
| Lifted up take sacrifices | A |
| Saw then Gregory the wrathful | A |
| Riding forth to rule in spirit | A |
| Over all the known world's kingdoms | A |
| Saw then Cola di Rienzi | A |
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| Homage pay to freedom's goddess | A |
| 'Mid the Roman people's paeans | A |
| Saw Pope Leo and his princes | A |
| Choose instead of the Lord Jesus | A |
| Aristotle dead and Plato | A |
| Saw again how stouter epochs | A |
| Raised the Church of Papal power | D |
| Till the Frenchman overthrew it | A |
| And exalted Nature's Godhead | A |
| Saw anew then wonted custom | O |
| In its pious still processions | A |
| With a Lamb the great world's ruler | D |
| All this saw the little Hermes | A |
| On the corner near the temple | A |
| And the wise man from the Northland | A |
| Saw that Hermes and his visions | A |
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| Yes when over Rome he stood there | D |
| In that high historic clearness | A |
| And his eye the mountain ridges | A |
| Followed toward the red of evening | F |
| Then all beams of longing focused | A |
| In a blessed intuition | C |
| And he saw a church before him | O |
| Greater far than that of nature | D |
| And he felt a peace descending | F |
| Larger far than all the present | A |
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| When the second time he came there | D |
| After days and nights of labor | D |
| Hard as were it for redemption | C |
| Then the Lord Himself gave welcome | O |
| Led him gently thither saying | F |
| 'Peace be with thee Thou hast conquered ' | - |
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| But to us with sorrow stricken | C |
| Turned the Lord with comfort saying | F |
| 'When | C |
| I | - |
| call who then dares murmur | D |
| That the called man had not finished ' | - |
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| Whoso dies he here had finished | A |
| Spite our sorrow we believe it | A |
| Hold that He who unrest giveth | W |
| The discoverer's disquiet | A |
| That drove Newton drove Columbus | A |
| Also knows when rest is needed | A |
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| But we question while reviewing | F |
| All that mighty thought armada | A |
| Now disbanded home returning | F |
| Who again shall reunite it | A |
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| For when | C |
| he | A |
| cut his war arrow | A |
| Lords and liegemen soon were mustered | A |
| And to aid from Sweden Denmark | F |
| England France swift flying vessels | A |
| Coursed the sea ways toward his standard | A |
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| Royal was that fleet and mighty | A |
| By our shore at anchor lying | F |
| We were wont to see it near us | A |
| Or to hear the wondrous tidings | A |
| Of its cruises and its conquests | A |
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| What it won we own forever | D |
| But the fleet is sailing homeward | A |
| Here we stan | C |
Bjarnstjerne Bjarnson
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