Miscellanies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A ABCDEA F GAAHIJKALJAMAA F NOPAQAAARSOTUAVWXAYD Z A2 B2XAA F C2AFAWAAA F A F SASA F TTUU F AAAA C AD2AD2 F FAFFA F T A E2AE2AF2F2AAAA F AFCFFA F FG2H2AFI2FF2ACANTATA | A |
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This is Denmark's holyday | A |
Dance ye maidens | B |
Sing ye men | C |
Tune ye harpers | D |
Blush ye heroes | E |
This is Denmark's holyday | A |
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ONE VOICE | F |
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In right's enjoyment in the arm of love | G |
Beneath the olive's shadow | A |
The Daneman sat | A |
Whilst wet and steaming wav'd the bloody flag | H |
Above the regions of the sunny South | I |
Pure was our heaven | J |
Pure and blue | K |
For with his pinions angel Peace dispell'd | A |
All reek and vapour from mild virtue's sphere | L |
Then lower'd Battle's blood bespatter'd son | J |
Upon our coast | A |
And haggard Envy lent to him her torch | M |
Which sparkled high with hell's sulphureous light | A |
Then fled the genius of peace and wept | A |
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A SECOND VOICE | F |
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But mighty thunders peal'd the earth it shook | N |
While rattled all the moss grown giant stones | O |
And Oldom's sunken grave hill rais'd itself | P |
Then started Skiold and Frode | A |
And Svend and Knud and Waldemar | Q |
In copper hauberks up and pointing to | A |
Rust spots of blood on faulchion and on shield | A |
They vanish'd | A |
And in the Gothic aisles high arch'd and dim | R |
Wild flutter'd of itself the ancient banner | S |
Which hung above a hero's bones | O |
The faulchion clatter'd loud and ceaselessly | T |
Within the tomb of Christian the Fourth | U |
By Tordenskiold's chapel on the strand | A |
Wild rose the daring Mermaid's witching song | V |
The stones were loosen'd round about the grave | W |
Where lay great Juul | X |
And Hvidtfeld clad in a transparent mist | A |
With smiles cherubic beaming on his face | Y |
Stray'd arm in arm with his heroic brothers | D |
Along the deep | Z |
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CHORUS | A2 |
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We felt the presence of one and all | B2 |
The old flags wav'd in the arsenal | X |
A wondrous spirit went round went round | A |
The Northern ground | A |
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ONE VOICE | F |
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Then waken'd Thor | C2 |
And drew around his loins the mighty belt | A |
Of bear sinews | F |
With love fraternal harden'd he his shield | A |
With eager haste he sharp'd his blunted glaive | W |
And with the iron of his hammer touch'd | A |
Each Dane's and every Norman's breast | A |
Shot his heroic flame therein and smil'd | A |
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MANY VOICES | F |
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And Denmark and Norway smil'd | A |
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LOUD CHORUS | F |
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Upon the water | S |
Upon the land | A |
We boun'd for slaughter | S |
At Thor's command | A |
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MAIDENS | F |
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Then fell our tears so quickly | T |
We breath'd we breath'd so thickly | T |
While scarce our lips could stammer forth | U |
Prayers for you and for the North | U |
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MATRONS | F |
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And we and we with breasts that smarted | A |
Knelt lowly knelt whilst firm ye stood | A |
From us and from affection parted | A |
In reek and smoke in brothers' blood | A |
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CHORUS OF MEN | C |
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Tenderness comes from God | A |
Woman and man in its praise should sing | D2 |
But tenderness flies at honour's nod | A |
We offer all up to our land and King | D2 |
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ONE VOICE | F |
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What sang ye warlike throngs | F |
Repeat repeat this day | A |
One of the simple nervous songs | F |
Ye murmur'd out when hot with wrongs | F |
Ye waited the coming fray | A |
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UNIVERSAL CHORUS | F |
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We love we all love thee beneficent Peace c | T |
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SOLO | A |
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Like the wave of the wild North main | E2 |
Foaming and frothing came on our foe | A |
Proud of his triumphs proud of his train | E2 |
He thought to lay us low | A |
But from Denmark's lines of oak | F2 |
A horrible horrible volley outbroke | F2 |
Then tumbled his mast | A |
His courage fell fast | A |
And the wave which resembled his furious mood | A |
Was now with his blood embrued | A |
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CHORUS | F |
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This is Denmark's holyday | A |
Dance ye maidens | F |
Sing ye men | C |
Tune ye harpers | F |
Blush ye heroes | F |
This is Denmark's holyday | A |
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A VOICE | F |
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But hark what sobbing and what mournful notes | F |
Are mixing with our hymns of ardent joy | G2 |
Hush hush be still | H2 |
A band of white rob'd maids approaches slow | A |
With lily chaplets round their yellow locks | F |
With heavy tear drops in their sunken eye | I2 |
Broken and trembling sounds | F |
The melancholy song | F2 |
Accompanied by harp tones rising mild | A |
George Borrow
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