A Brother In Need Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGGF GGGGHIHHI JGJGGGGGG K KGDGDDG GIGILJLLJ MDMDGNGGN OGOGKGKKG| NOW rallying once if ne'er again | A |
| With flag at half mast flown | B |
| A people in dire need and strain | C |
| Mans Tyra's bastion | D |
| - | |
| Betrayed in danger's hour betrayed | E |
| Before the stress of strife | F |
| Was this the meaning that it had | G |
| That clasp of hands at Axelstad | G |
| Which gave the North new life | F |
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| The words that seemed as if they rushed | G |
| From deepest heart springs out | G |
| Were phrases then the freshet gushed | G |
| And now is fall'n the drought | G |
| The tree that promised rich in bloom | H |
| Mid festal sun and shower | I |
| Stands wind stript in the louring gloom | H |
| A cross to mark young Norway's tomb | H |
| The first dark testing hour | I |
| - | |
| They were but Judas kisses lies | J |
| In fatal wreaths enwound | G |
| The cheers of Norway's sons and cries | J |
| Towards the beach of Sound | G |
| What passed that time we watched them meet | G |
| 'Twixt Norse and Danish lord | G |
| Oh nothing only to repeat | G |
| King Gustav's play at Stockholm's seat | G |
| With the Twelfth Charles' sword | G |
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| 'A people doomed whose knell is rung | K |
| Betrayed by every friend ' | - |
| Is the book closed and the song sung | K |
| Is this our Denmark's end | G |
| Who set the craven colophon | D |
| While Germans seized the hold | G |
| And o'er the last Dane lying prone | D |
| Old Denmark's tattered flag was thrown | D |
| With doubly crimsoned fold | G |
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| But thou my brother Norsemen set | G |
| Beyond the war storm's power | I |
| Because thou knewest to forget | G |
| Fair words in danger's hour | I |
| Flee from thy homes of ancient fame | L |
| Go chase a new sunrise | J |
| Pursue oblivion and for shame | L |
| Disguise thee in a stranger's name | L |
| To hide from thine own eyes | J |
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| Each wind that sighs from Danish waves | M |
| Through Norway's woods of pine | D |
| Of thy pale lips an answer craves | M |
| Where wast thou brother mine | D |
| I fought for both a deadly fight | G |
| In vain to spy thy prow | N |
| O'er belt and fiord I strained my sight | G |
| My fatherland with graves grew white | G |
| My brother where wast thou | N |
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| It was a dream Arise awake | O |
| To do a nation's deed | G |
| Each to his post swift counsel take | O |
| A brother is in need | G |
| A nobler song may yet be sung | K |
| Danes Danes keep Tyra's hold | G |
| And o'er a Northern era young | K |
| And rich in hope be proudly flung | K |
| The red flag's tattered fold | G |
Henrik Johan Ibsen
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