The Miner Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDEE FFGE HHBB DDBB IIJJ FFKK LMNO PPGE QQRR| Beetling rock with roar and smoke | A |
| Break before my hammer stroke | A |
| Deeper I must thrust and lower | B |
| Till I hear the ring of ore | C |
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| From the mountain's unplumbed night | D |
| Deep amid the gold veins bright | D |
| Diamonds lure me rubies beckon | E |
| Treasure hoard that none may reckon | E |
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| There is peace within the deep | F |
| Peace and immemorial sleep | F |
| Heavy hammer burst as bidden | G |
| To the heart nook of the hidden | E |
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| Once I too a careless lad | H |
| Under starry heavens was glad | H |
| Trod the primrose paths of summer | B |
| Child like knew not care nor cummer | B |
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| But I lost the sense of light | D |
| In the poring womb of night | D |
| Woodland songs when earth rejoiced her | B |
| Breathed not down my hollow cloister | B |
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| Fondly did I cry when first | I |
| Into the dark place I burst | I |
| Answer spirits of the middle | J |
| Earth my life's unending riddle | J |
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| Still the spirits of the deep | F |
| Unrevealed their answer keep | F |
| Still no beam from out the gloomy | K |
| Cavern rises to illume me | K |
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| Have I erred Does this way lead | L |
| Not to clarity indeed | M |
| If above I seek to find it | N |
| By the glare my eyes are blinded | O |
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| Downward then the depths are best | P |
| There is immemorial rest | P |
| Heavy hammer burst as bidden | G |
| To the heart nook of the hidden | E |
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| Hammer blow on hammer blow | Q |
| Till the lamp of life is low | Q |
| Not a ray of hope's fore warning | R |
| Not a glimmer of the morning | R |
Henrik Johan Ibsen
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