To Aasmund Olafsen Vinje (sung At His Wife's Grave) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCB BDBDEFEB GHGHIIIJ FFKFBBBF LBLBIIIJ| Your house to guests has shelter lent | A |
| While you with pen were seated | B |
| In silent quest they came and went | A |
| You saw them not nor greeted | B |
| But when now they | C |
| Were gone away | C |
| Your babe without a mother lay | C |
| And you had lost your helpmate | B |
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| The home you built but yesterday | B |
| In death to day is sinking | D |
| And you stand sick and worn and gray | B |
| On ruins of your thinking | D |
| Your way lay bare | E |
| Since child you were | F |
| The shelter that you first could share | E |
| Was this that now is shattered | B |
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| But know the guests that to you came | G |
| In sorrow's waste will meet you | H |
| Though shy you shrink they still will claim | G |
| The right with love to treat you | H |
| For where you go | I |
| To you they show | I |
| The world in radiant light aglow | I |
| Of great and wondrous visions | J |
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| What once you saw now passing o'er | F |
| Will but be made the clearer | F |
| It is the far eternal shore | K |
| That on your way draws nearer | F |
| Your poet sight | B |
| Will see in light | B |
| All that the clouds have wrapped in night | B |
| Great doubts will find an answer | F |
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| And later when you leave again | L |
| The waste of woe thought pregnant | B |
| Whom you have met shall teach us then | L |
| Your pen in power regnant | B |
| From sorrow's weal | I |
| With purer zeal | I |
| Inspiring light and pain's appeal | I |
| Shall shine your wondrous visions | J |
Bjarnstjerne Bjarnson
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