By The Fireside : Tegner's Death (tegner's Drapa) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GHEIJK AB LMD BHNOPQ DRISTT UVWXTT YZA2B2A2C2 YLD2OE2F2 NIG2H2I2J2 K2NF2NL2M2 N2NF2F2NO2 F2P2NO2D2O2I heard a voice that cried | A |
'Balder the Beautiful | B |
Is dead is dead ' | C |
And through the misty air | D |
Passed like the mournful cry | E |
Of sunward sailing cranes | F |
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I saw the pallid corpse | G |
Of the dead sun | H |
Borne through the Northern sky | E |
Blasts from Niffelheim | I |
Lifted the sheeted mists | J |
Around him as he passed | K |
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And the voice forever cried | A |
'Balder the Beautiful | B |
Is dead is dead ' | - |
And died away | L |
Through the dreary night | M |
In accents of despair | D |
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Balder the Beautiful | B |
God of the summer sun | H |
Fairest of all the Gods | N |
Light from his forehead beamed | O |
Runes were upon his tongue | P |
As on the warrior's sword | Q |
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All things in earth and air | D |
Bound were by magic spell | R |
Never to do him harm | I |
Even the plants and stones | S |
All save the mistletoe | T |
The sacred mistletoe | T |
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Hoeder the blind old God | U |
Whose feet are shod with silence | V |
Pierced through that gentle breast | W |
With his sharp spear by fraud | X |
Made of the mistletoe | T |
The accursed mistletoe | T |
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They laid him in his ship | Y |
With horse and harness | Z |
As on a funeral pyre | A2 |
Odin placed | B2 |
A ring upon his finger | A2 |
And whispered in his ear | C2 |
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They launched the burning ship | Y |
It floated far away | L |
Over the misty sea | D2 |
Till like the sun it seemed | O |
Sinking beneath the waves | E2 |
Balder returned no more | F2 |
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So perish the old Gods | N |
But out of the sea of Time | I |
Rises a new land of song | G2 |
Fairer than the old | H2 |
Over its meadows green | I2 |
Walk the young bards and sing | J2 |
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Build it again | K2 |
O ye bards | N |
Fairer than before | F2 |
Ye fathers of the new race | N |
Feed upon morning dew | L2 |
Sing the new Song of Love | M2 |
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The law of force is dead | N2 |
The law of love prevails | N |
Thor the thunderer | F2 |
Shall rule the earth no more | F2 |
No more with threats | N |
Challenge the meek Christ | O2 |
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Sing no more | F2 |
O ye bards of the North | P2 |
Of Vikings and of Jarls | N |
Of the days of Eld | O2 |
Preserve the freedom only | D2 |
Not the deeds of blood | O2 |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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