The Bier Of Precentor A. Reitan Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCB DEDEEEE FBFBGGGB BHBHBBBH EIEIEEEI| With smiles his soft eyes ever gleamed | A |
| When God and country thinking | B |
| With endless joy his soul it seemed | A |
| Faith fatherland was linking | B |
| His word his song | C |
| Like springs flowed strong | C |
| They fruitful made the valley long | C |
| And quickened all there drinking | B |
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| Poor people and poor homes among | D |
| In wintry region saddest | E |
| In Sunday's choir he always sung | D |
| Of all the world the gladdest | E |
| 'The axis stout | E |
| It turns about | E |
| Falls not the poorest home without | E |
| For thus O God Thou badest ' | - |
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| With sickness came a heavy year | F |
| And put to proof his singing | B |
| While helpless children standing near | F |
| His trust to test were bringing | B |
| But glad the more | G |
| As soft notes soar | G |
| When winds o'er hidden harp strings pour | G |
| His song his soul was winging | B |
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| His life foretold us that erelong | B |
| With faith in God unshaken | H |
| Shall all our nation stand in song | B |
| And church home school awaken | H |
| In Norway's song | B |
| In gladness' song | B |
| In glory of the Lord's own song | B |
| From life's low squalor taken | H |
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| Fair fatherland do not forget | E |
| The children of his bower | I |
| He poor as is the rosebush yet | E |
| Gave gladness till death's hour | I |
| With failure's smart | E |
| Let not depart | E |
| From this thy soil so glad a heart | E |
| His garden let it flower | I |
Bjarnstjerne Bjarnson
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