The Skeleton In Armor Poem Rhyme Scheme

Recent Interactions*

This poem was read 4 times,

This poem was added to the favorite list by 0 members,

This poem was voted by 0 members.

(* Interactions only in the last 7 days)

New Poems

Wonderful Women
by Umaru Kanneh Boima
Freedom To Scratch In Peace
by Olute Aete
Happy New Year
by Felix Menda
Human Beings
by Dana Graslie
Lust
by Wisdom Greatness
An Isolated Tree's Song
by Sayeed Abubakar
A Strange Boy
by Sayeed Abubakar
O Soil
by Sayeed Abubakar
No War, No War-monger
by Sayeed Abubakar
Night's Town
by Sayeed Abubakar

Popular Poets

1. Emily Dickinson(2414 poems)
2. Madison Julius Cawein(1231 poems)
3. Ella Wheeler Wilcox(1136 poems)
4. William Wordsworth(1016 poems)
5. Robert Burns(986 poems)
6. Edgar Albert Guest(945 poems)
7. Thomas Moore(849 poems)
8. Robert Service(831 poems)

Speak speak thou fearful guest	A
Who with thy hollow breast	A
Still in rude armor drest	A
Comest to daunt me	B
Wrapt not in Eastern balms	C
But with thy fleshless palms	C
Stretched as if asking alms	D
Why dost thou haunt me	B
	-
Then from those cavernous eyes	E
Pale flashes seemed to rise	E
As when the Northern skies	E
Gleam in December	F
And like the water's flow	G
Under December's snow	G
Came a dull voice of woe	G
From the heart's chamber	F
	-
I was a Viking old	A
My deeds though manifold	A
No Skald in song has told	A
No Saga taught thee	B
Take heed that in thy verse	H
Thou dost the tale rehearse	H
Else dread a dead man's curse	H
For this I sought thee	B
	-
Far in the Northern Land	A
By the wild Baltic's strand	A
I with my childish hand	A
Tamed the gerfalcon	G
And with my skates fast bound	A
Skimmed the half frozen Sound	A
That the poor whimpering hound	A
Trembled to walk on	G
	-
Oft to his frozen lair	I
Tracked I the grisly bear	I
While from my path the hare	I
Fled like a shadow	G
Oft through the forest dark	J
Followed the were wolf's bark	J
Until the soaring lark	J
Sang from the meadow	G
	-
But when I older grew	K
Joining a corsair's crew	K
O'er the dark sea I flew	K
With the marauders	L
Wild was the life we led	A
Many the souls that sped	A
Many the hearts that bled	A
By our stern orders	L
	-
Many a wassail bout	A
Wore the long Winter out	A
Often our midnight shout	A
Set the cocks crowing	M
As we the Berserk's tale	N
Measured in cups of ale	N
Draining the oaken pail	N
Filled to o'erflowing	M
	-
Once as I told in glee	B
Tales of the stormy sea	B
Soft eyes did gaze on me	B
Burning yet tender	F
And as the white stars shine	G
On the dark Norway pine	G
On that dark heart of mine	G
Fell their soft splendor	F
	-
I wooed the blue eyed maid	A
Yielding yet half afraid	A
And in the forest's shade	A
Our vows were plighted	A
Under its loosened vest	A
Fluttered her little breast	A
Like birds within their nest	A
By the hawk frighted	A
	-
Bright in her father's hall	O
Shields gleamed upon the wall	O
Loud sang the minstrels all	O
Chanting his glory	B
When of old Hildebrand	A
I asked his daughter's hand	A
Mute did the minstrels stand	A
To hear my story	B
	-
While the brown ale he quaffed	A
Loud then the champion laughed	A
And as the wind gusts waft	A
The sea foam brightly	B
So the loud laugh of scorn	G
Out of those lips unshorn	G
From the deep drinking horn	G
Blew the foam lightly	B
	-
She was a Prince's child	A
I but a Viking wild	A
And though she blushed and smiled	A
I was discarded	A
Should not the dove so white	A
Follow the sea mew's flight	A
Why did they leave that night	A
Her nest unguarded	A
	-
Scarce had I put to sea	B
Bearing the maid with me	B
Fairest of all was she	B
Among the Norsemen	G
When on the white sea strand	A
Waving his armed hand	A
Saw we old Hildebrand	A
With twenty horsemen	G
	-
Then launched they to the blast	A
Bent like a reed each mast	A
Yet we were gaining fast	A
When the wind failed us	P
And with a sudden flaw	Q
Came round the gusty Skaw	M
So that our foe we saw	Q
Laugh as he hailed us	P
	-
And as to catch the gale	N
Round veered the flapping sail	N
'Death ' was the helmsman's hail	N
'Death without quarter '	-
Mid ships with iron keel	R
Struck we her ribs of steel	R
Down her black hulk did reel	R
Through the black water	F
	-
As with his wings aslant	A
Sails the fierce cormorant	A
Seeking some rocky haunt	A
With his prey laden	G
So toward the open main	G
Beating to sea again	G
Through the wild hurricane	G
Bore I the maiden	G
	-
Three weeks we westward bore	S
And when the storm was o'er	F
Cloud like we saw the shore	S
Stretching to leeward	A
There for my lady's bower	F
Built I the lofty tower	F
Which to this very hour	F
Stands looking seaward	A
	-
There lived we many years	T
Time dried the maiden's tears	U
She had forgot her fears	T
She was a mother	F
Death closed her mild blue eyes	E
Under that tower she lies	E
Ne'er shall the sun arise	E
On such another	F
	-
Still grew my bosom then	G
Still as a stagnant fen	G
Hateful to me were men	G
The sunlight hateful	V
In the vast forest here	W
Clad in my warlike gear	X
Fell I upon my spear	X
Oh death was grateful	V
	-
Thus seamed with many scars	Y
Bursting these prison bars	Y
Up to its native stars	Y
My soul ascended	A
There from the flowing bowl	Z
Deep drinks the warrior's soul	Z
Skoal to the Northland skoal	Z
Thus the tale ended	A

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Skeleton In Armor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Write your comment about The Skeleton In Armor poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Recent Interactions*

New Poems

Popular Poets