When Norway Would Not Help Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGHGH IJIJKLKLFMFMNONO PQPQRSRS| When Kattegat now or the Belt you sail | A |
| No more will you sight | B |
| The Danish proud frigate no more will you hail | A |
| The red and white | B |
| No more will the ringing command be heard | C |
| In Wessel's tongue | D |
| No rollicking music no jocund word | C |
| 'Neath Dannebrog sung | D |
| No dance will you see no laughter meet | E |
| As the white sails shine | F |
| From mast and from stern no garland you greet | E |
| Of arts the sign | F |
| But all that we owned of the treasures on board | G |
| The deeps now hold | H |
| One sad winter night to the sea waves were poured | G |
| Our memories old | H |
| - | |
| It was that same night when the frigate nigh | I |
| To Norway's land | J |
| Distress guns was firing the surf running high | I |
| With sea weed and sand | J |
| To help from the harbor men put out boats | K |
| But they turn back | L |
| The frigate toward Germany drifting floats | K |
| A broken wrack | L |
| What once had been ours overboard was strown | F |
| Each kinship mark | M |
| Was quickly removed to the sea it was thrown | F |
| With curses stark | M |
| The Northern lion that figure head gray | N |
| Now had to fall | O |
| In pieces 'twas hewn and the frigate lay | N |
| Like a shattered wall | O |
| - | |
| Repaired and refitted its canvas it spread | P |
| Near Germany's coast | Q |
| With black yellow flag and an eagle dread | P |
| In the lion's post | Q |
| When sailing we Kattegat sweep with our eyes | R |
| 'T is still evermore | S |
| But a German admiral's frigate lies | R |
| Near Scania's shore | S |
Bjarnstjerne Bjarnson
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