Post Festum Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CD EBBE FGG HIIH EFFE FFFJJ| A man in coat of ice arrayed | A |
| Stood up once by the Arctic Ocean | B |
| The whole earth shook with proud emotion | B |
| And honor to the giant paid | A |
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| A king came to him climbing up | C |
| An Order in his one hand bearing | D |
| 'Who great become this sign are wearing ' | - |
| The growling giant said but 'Stop ' | - |
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| The frightened king fell down again | E |
| Began to weep with features ashen | B |
| 'My Order is in this rude fashion | B |
| Refused by just the greatest men | E |
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| 'My dear man take it 't is but fit | F |
| Of your king's honor be the warder | G |
| On your breast greater grows the Order | G |
| And we who bear it too by it ' | - |
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| The Arctic giant was too good | H |
| A foible oft ascribed to giants | I |
| Who foolish trust in little clients | I |
| He took it while we mocking stood | H |
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| But all the kings crept to him then | E |
| And each his Order brought to know it | F |
| Thereby renewed and greater so it | F |
| Gave rank to needy noblemen | E |
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| Honi soit | F |
| and all the rest | F |
| Soon Orders covered all his breast | F |
| But oh they greater grew no tittle | J |
| And he grew so confounded little | J |
Bjarnstjerne Bjarnson
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