Beowulf's Expedition To Heort Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEFFFGHAIIJKLMDN OPQRSAAIAFIAATAAAAAA AIUIIAAAIBAIVWLAIAXY ZLA2AIIPB2IPAATAAC2I LAAAIIPIIAAAABPBC2AA APID2AFAIAIFBABE2AIB AFIACUIIBWAFAAAF2Thus then much care worn | A |
The son of Healfden | A |
Sorrowed evermore | B |
Nor might the prudent hero | C |
His woes avert | D |
The war was too hard | E |
Too loath and longsome | F |
That on the people came | F |
Dire wrath and grim | F |
Of night woes the worst | G |
This from home heard | H |
Higelac's Thane | A |
Good among the Goths | I |
Grendel's deeds | I |
He was of mankind | J |
In might the strongest | K |
At that day | L |
Of this life | M |
Noble and stalwart | D |
He bade him a sea ship | N |
A goodly one prepare | O |
Quoth he the war king | P |
Over the swan's road | Q |
Seek he would | R |
The mighty monarch | S |
Since he wanted men | A |
For him that journey | A |
His prudent fellows | I |
Straight made ready | A |
Those that loved him | F |
They excited their souls | I |
The omen they beheld | A |
Had the good man | A |
Of the Gothic people | T |
Champions chosen | A |
Of those that keenest | A |
He might find | A |
Some fifteen men | A |
The sea wood sought he | A |
The warrior showed | A |
Sea crafty man | A |
The land marks | I |
And first went forth | U |
The ship was on the waves | I |
Boat under the cliffs | I |
The barons ready | A |
To the prow mounted | A |
The streams they whirled | A |
The sea against the sands | I |
The chieftains bore | B |
On the naked breast | A |
Bright ornaments | I |
War gear Goth like | V |
The men shoved off | W |
Men on their willing way | L |
The bounden wood | A |
Then went over the sea waves | I |
Hurried by the wind | A |
The ship with foamy neck | X |
Most like a sea fowl | Y |
Till about one hour | Z |
Of the second day | L |
The curved prow | A2 |
Had passed onward | A |
So that the sailors | I |
The land saw | I |
The shore cliffs shining | P |
Mountains steep | B2 |
And broad sea noses | I |
Then was the sea sailing | P |
Of the Earl at an end | A |
Then up speedily | A |
The Weather people | T |
On the land went | A |
The sea bark moored | A |
Their mail sarks shook | C2 |
Their war weeds | I |
God thanked they | L |
That to them the sea journey | A |
Easy had been | A |
Then from the wall beheld | A |
The warden of the Scyldings | I |
He who the sea cliffs | I |
Had in his keeping | P |
Bear o'er the balks | I |
The bright shields | I |
The war weapons speedily | A |
Him the doubt disturbed | A |
In his mind's thought | A |
What these men might be | A |
Went then to the shore | B |
On his steed riding | P |
The Thane of Hrothgar | B |
Before the host he shook | C2 |
His warden's staff in hand | A |
In measured words demanded | A |
'What men are ye | A |
War gear wearing | P |
Host in harness | I |
Who thus the brown keel | D2 |
Over the water street | A |
Leading come | F |
Hither over the sea | A |
I these boundaries | I |
As shore warden hold | A |
That in the Land of the Danes | I |
Nothing loathsome | F |
With a ship crew | B |
Scathe us might | A |
Ne'er saw I mightier | B |
Earl upon earth | E2 |
Than is your own | A |
Hero in harness | I |
Not seldom this warrior | B |
Is in weapons distinguished | A |
Never his beauty belies him | F |
His peerless countenance | I |
Now would I fain | A |
Your origin know | C |
Ere ye forth | U |
As false spies | I |
Into the Land of the Danes | I |
Farther fare | B |
Now ye dwellers afar off | W |
Ye sailors of the sea | A |
Listen to my | F |
One fold thought | A |
Quickest is best | A |
To make known | A |
Whence your coming may be ' | F2 |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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