Those With Me Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFF DDGGDD HHIIFF JDKKLL MMNNLL OOPPPP LLQQRR SSNTLUFF VVWWEE DDLLEEFF| As on I drive in my heart joy dwells | A |
| Of Sabbath silence with sound of bells | A |
| The sun lifts | B |
| all | C |
| that is living growing | D |
| God's love itself in its symbol showing | D |
| To church pass people from near and far | E |
| Soon psalms ascend from the door ajar | E |
| Good cheer Your greeting hailed more than me | F |
| But that in hastening you failed to see | F |
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| Here's goodly company with me riding | D |
| Though oft they cunningly keep in hiding | D |
| But when you saw me so Sunday glad | G |
| It was because of the mates I had | G |
| And when you heard me so softly singing | D |
| The tones attuned to their hearts were ringing | D |
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| One soul is here of such priceless worth | H |
| For me she offered her all on earth | H |
| Yes she who smiled in my boat storm driven | I |
| And blanched not braving the waves wind riven | I |
| In whose white arms that in love caressed me | F |
| Full warmth of life and of faith possessed me | F |
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| The snail in this I am like when faring | J |
| My home I ever am with me bearing | D |
| And who believes it is burdensome | K |
| He ought to learn how it's good to come | K |
| And creep in under the roof thereafter | L |
| Where she gives light amid children's laughter | L |
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| No poet paints nor can thinker tell | M |
| So vast a vault or so deep a well | M |
| As where the glory of God's own love | N |
| On cradle mirror falls from above | N |
| Your soul is brighter your heart more tender | L |
| When by the cradle your thanks you render | L |
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| Who knows not love in the small and near | O |
| The many in memory hold not dear | O |
| Who cannot build him a house his own | P |
| What towers he builds will be soon o'erthrown | P |
| From Moscow victor to Carthagena | P |
| He vanquished dies on his Saint Helena | P |
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| When such a stronghold you've reared with labor | L |
| It often safely protects your neighbor | L |
| Though work of woman's and children's hands | Q |
| Your soul finds strength where that fortress stands | Q |
| You go hence braver to battle dangers | R |
| Can courage give unto countless strangers | R |
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| One home bore often a whole land's fate | S |
| And sent the hero who saved the state | S |
| Thousands of | N |
| homes | T |
| when the war was o'er | L |
| The land delivered in safety bore | U |
| So bear it onward in peace and beauty | F |
| The hearts of homes beating true to duty | F |
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| Though foreign perfumes be fine and rare | V |
| Still pure alone is the home's sweet air | V |
| Naught meets you there but the childlike truthful | W |
| And sin is kissed from your forehead ruthful | W |
| To heaven's home leads its door ajar | E |
| For thence it came and it lies not far | E |
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| Good cheer to church on your way not staying | D |
| For those we love we shall both be praying | D |
| In prayer together the way we wander | L |
| That leads from this to the home up yonder | L |
| You enter in I must journey far | E |
| While follow psalms from the door ajar | E |
| Good cheer Your greeting hailed more than me | F |
| But that in hastening you failed to see | F |
Bjarnstjerne Bjarnson
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