The Voice Of The North Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHJGKL MNONMPNP FQRQRNNN| You have builded your ships in the sun lands | A |
| And launched them with song and wine | B |
| They are boweled with your stanchest engines | C |
| And masted with bravest pine | B |
| You have met in your closet councils | D |
| With your plans and your prayers to God | E |
| For a fortunate wind to waft you | F |
| Where never a foot has trod | E |
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| And now you follow the polar star | G |
| To the seat of the old Norse Kings | H |
| Past the death white halls of Valhalla | I |
| Where the Norn to the tempest sings | H |
| Follow the steady needle | J |
| That cleaves to its steady star | G |
| To the uttermost realms of Odin | K |
| And the warlike thunderer Thor | L |
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| Far through the icy silence | M |
| Where the glacier's teeth hang white | N |
| And even the sun god Baldur | O |
| Looks down in vague affright | N |
| You flutter like startled spectres | M |
| With a prayer on your lips for the goal | P |
| To stand for one thrilling moment | N |
| At the awful nameless Pole | P |
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| But lo in that hour shall greet you | F |
| At the end of your perilous path | Q |
| A mockery far more bitter | R |
| Than the sting of the frost king's wrath | Q |
| For this is the meed you shall gather | R |
| In the lands no man has trod | N |
| The finger that beckoned you onward | N |
| Shall lift and point to God | N |
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Charles Hamilton Musgrove
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