Valkyriur Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCB DEFECCE GHGHBBH IJIJKKJ LMLMNNM OOCCPQOO RRSSTTOO IIUUTTOO VVEEJJO GWGWKKW| The 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| '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 |
| - | |
| '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 |
| - | |
| '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 |
| - | |
| '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 ' | - |
| - | |
| 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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