Nadowessian Death-lament Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJEI KLML NOOO PQPQ RORO OSOT OUOI VOVO| See 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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