Nadowessian Death-lament Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJEI KLML NOOO PQPQ RORO OSOT OUOI VOVOSee he sitteth on his mat | A |
Sitteth there upright | B |
With the grace with which he sat | A |
While he saw the light | B |
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Where is now the sturdy gripe | C |
Where the breath sedate | D |
That so lately whiffed the pipe | C |
Toward the Spirit great | D |
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Where the bright and falcon eye | E |
That the reindeer's tread | F |
On the waving grass could spy | E |
Thick with dewdrops spread | F |
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Where the limbs that used to dart | G |
Swifter through the snow | H |
Than the twenty membered hart | G |
Than the mountain roe | H |
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Where the arm that sturdily | I |
Bent the deadly bow | J |
See its life hath fleeted by | E |
See it hangeth low | I |
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Happy he He now has gone | K |
Where no snow is found | L |
Where with maize the fields are sown | M |
Self sprung from the ground | L |
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Where with birds each bush is filled | N |
Where with game the wood | O |
Where the fish with joy unstilled | O |
Wanton in the flood | O |
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With the spirits blest he feeds | P |
Leaves us here in gloom | Q |
We can only praise his deeds | P |
And his corpse entomb | Q |
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Farewell gifts then hither bring | R |
Sound the death note sad | O |
Bury with him everything | R |
That can make him glad | O |
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'Neath his head the hatchet hide | O |
That he boldly swung | S |
And the bear's fat haunch beside | O |
For the road is long | T |
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And the knife well sharpened | O |
That with slashes three | U |
Scalp and skin from foeman's head | O |
Tore off skilfully | I |
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And to paint his body place | V |
Dyes within his hand | O |
Let him shine with ruddy grace | V |
In the Spirit land | O |
Friedrich Schiller
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