Beowulf's Expedition To Heort Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEFFFGHAIIJKLMDN OPQRSAAIAFIAATAAAAAA AIUIIAAAIBAIVWLAIAXY ZLA2AIIPB2IPAATAAC2I LAAAIIPIIAAAABPBC2AA APID2AFAIAIFBABE2AIB AFIACUIIBWAFAAAF2| Thus 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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