Tegner's Drapa Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GHEIJK ABCLMD BHNOPQ DRISTT UVWXTT YZA2B2A2C2 YLD2OE2F2 NIG2H2I2J2 K2NF2NL2M2 CNF2F2NN2 F2O2NN2D2N2| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| And the voice forever cried | A |
| Balder the Beautiful | B |
| Is dead is dead | C |
| And died away | L |
| Through the dreary night | M |
| In accents of despair | D |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| The law of force is dead | C |
| 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 | N2 |
| - | |
| Sing no more | F2 |
| O ye bards of the North | O2 |
| Of Vikings and of Jarls | N |
| Of the days of Eld | N2 |
| Preserve the freedom only | D2 |
| Not the deeds of blood | N2 |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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