Valkyriur Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCB DEFECCE GHGHBBH IJIJKKJ LMLMNNM OOCCPQOO RRSSTTOO IIUUTTOO VVEEJJO GWGWKKWThe Sea king woke from the troubled sleep | A |
Of a vision haunted night | B |
And he look'd from his bark o'er the gloomy deep | A |
And counted the streaks of light | B |
For the red sun's earliest ray | C |
Was to rouse his bands that day | C |
To the stormy joy of fight | B |
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But the dreams of rest were still on earth | D |
And the silent stars on high | E |
And there wav'd not the smoke of one cabin hearth | F |
'Midst the quiet of the sky | E |
And along the twilight bay | C |
In their sleep the hamlets lay | C |
For they knew not the Norse were nigh | E |
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The Sea king look'd o'er the brooding wave | G |
He turn'd to the dusky shore | H |
And there seem'd through the arch of a tide worn cave | G |
A gleam as of snow to pour | H |
And forth in watery light | B |
Mov'd phantoms dimly white | B |
Which the garb of woman bore | H |
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Slowly they mov'd to the billow side | I |
And the forms as they grew more clear | J |
Seem'd each on a tall pale steed to ride | I |
And a shadowy crest to rear | J |
And to beckon with faint hand | K |
From the dark and rocky strand | K |
And to point a gleaming spear | J |
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Then a stillness on his spirit fell | L |
Before th' unearthly train | M |
For he knew Valhalla's daughters well | L |
The choosers of the slain | M |
And a sudden rising breeze | N |
Bore across the moaning seas | N |
To his ear their thrilling strain | M |
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'There are songs in Odin's Hall | O |
For the brave ere night to fall | O |
Doth the great sun hide his ray | C |
He must bring a wrathful day | C |
Sleeps the falchion in its sheath | P |
Swords must do the work of death | Q |
Regner sea king thee we call | O |
There is joy in Odin's Hall | O |
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'At the feast and in the song | R |
Thou shalt be remember'd long | R |
By the green isles of the flood | S |
Thou hast left thy track in blood | S |
On the earth and on the sea | T |
There are those will speak of thee | T |
'Tis enough the war gods call | O |
There is mead in Odin's Hall | O |
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'Regner tell thy fair hair'd bride | I |
She must slumber at thy side | I |
Tell the brother of thy breast | U |
Ev'n for him thy grave hath rest | U |
Tell the raven steed which bore thee | T |
When the wild wolf fled before thee | T |
He too with his lord must fall | O |
There is room in Odin's Hall | O |
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'Lo the mighty sun looks forth | V |
Arm thou leader of the north | V |
Lo the mists of twilight fly | E |
We must vanish thou must die | E |
By the sword and by the spear | J |
By the hand that knows not fear | J |
Sea king nobly shalt thou fall | O |
There is joy in Odin's Hall ' | - |
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There was arming heard on land and wave | G |
When afar the sunlight spread | W |
And the phantom forms of the tide worn cave | G |
With the mists of morning fled | W |
But at eve the kingly hand | K |
Of the battle axe and brand | K |
Lay cold on a pile of dead | W |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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