National Song (from The Danish Of Evald) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAABCDB EFEEEFGHF IJIIIJEEJ EKEEEKLLK| King Christian stood beside the mast | A |
| Smoke mixt with flame | B |
| Hung o'er his guns that rattled fast | A |
| Against the Gothmen as they pass'd | A |
| Then sunk each hostile sail and mast | A |
| In smoke and flame | B |
| Fly said the foe fly all that can | C |
| Nor wage with Denmark's Christian | D |
| The dread unequal game | B |
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| Niels Juul look'd out and loudly cried | E |
| Quick now's the time | F |
| He hoisted up his banner wide | E |
| And fore and aft his foemen plied | E |
| And loud above the battle cried | E |
| Quick now's the time | F |
| Fly said the foe 't is Fortune's rule | G |
| To deck the head of Denmark's Juul | H |
| With Glory's wreath sublime | F |
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| Once Baltic when the musket's knell | I |
| Rang through the sky | J |
| Down to thy bosom heroes fell | I |
| And gasp'd amid the stormy swell | I |
| While from the shore a piercing yell | I |
| Rang through the sky | J |
| God aids me cried our Tordenskiold | E |
| Proud foes ye are but vainly bold | E |
| Strike strike to me or fly | J |
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| Thou Danish path to fame and might | E |
| Dark rolling wave | K |
| Receive a friend who holds as light | E |
| The perils of the stormy fight | E |
| Who braves like thee the tempest's might | E |
| Dark rolling wave | K |
| O swiftly bear my bark along | L |
| Till crown'd with conquest lull'd with song | L |
| I reach my bourne the grave | K |
George Borrow
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