To Erika Lie Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCC CCCDDD DDDCCC ECCCFFF CCCEEE CCCDDD| When Norse nature's dower | A |
| Tones will paint with power | B |
| There is more than mountain heights that tower | B |
| Plains spread wide extending | C |
| Whereon at their wending | C |
| Summer nights soft dews are sending | C |
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| Forests great are growing | C |
| And in long waves going | C |
| Glommen's valley fill to overflowing | C |
| There are green slopes vernal | D |
| Glad with joy fraternal | D |
| Open to the light supernal | D |
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| For revealing wholly | D |
| All things fine and holy | D |
| As in sunshine birds are soaring slowly | D |
| Or their spells transmitting | C |
| Northern Lights are flitting | C |
| None but maiden hands are fitting | C |
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| Your | E |
| hands came and playing | C |
| O'er their secrets straying | C |
| Picture after picture are portraying | C |
| As the poet dreamed them | F |
| In soul travail teemed them | F |
| Till your artist hands redeemed them | F |
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| Now their light far flinging | C |
| We see flashing swinging | C |
| Sparks as from your father's humor springing | C |
| Now there meets us nigher | E |
| Mirroring the higher | E |
| Mother's eye of softer fire | E |
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| Child heart tones are holding | C |
| All our minds and molding | C |
| So its faith the wide world is enfolding | C |
| While your sweet sounds sally | D |
| Truth to tell and rally | D |
| Maiden blonde from Glommen's valley | D |
Bjarnstjerne Bjarnson
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