To An Old Danish Song-book Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGF HIFJ KLMC NLLL OIPQ RILS LLTL LUVV WXLL YZLL A2LIL B2ILC2 ALBC D2LE2C F2ILE2Welcome my old friend | A |
Welcome to a foreign fireside | B |
While the sullen gales of autumn | C |
Shake the windows | D |
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The ungrateful world | E |
Has it seems dealt harshly with thee | F |
Since beneath the skies of Denmark | G |
First I met thee | F |
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There are marks of age | H |
There are thumb marks on thy margin | I |
Made by hands that clasped thee rudely | F |
At the alehouse | J |
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Soiled and dull thou art | K |
Yellow are thy time worn pages | L |
As the russet rain molested | M |
Leaves of autumn | C |
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Thou art stained with wine | N |
Scattered from hilarious goblets | L |
As the leaves with the libations | L |
Of Olympus | L |
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Yet dost thou recall | O |
Days departed half forgotten | I |
When in dreamy youth I wandered | P |
By the Baltic | Q |
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When I paused to hear | R |
The old ballad of King Christian | I |
Shouted from suburban taverns | L |
In the twilight | S |
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Thou recallest bards | L |
Who in solitary chambers | L |
And with hearts by passion wasted | T |
Wrote thy pages | L |
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Thou recallest homes | L |
Where thy songs of love and friendship | U |
Made the gloomy Northern winter | V |
Bright as summer | V |
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Once some ancient Scald | W |
In his bleak ancestral Iceland | X |
Chanted staves of these old ballads | L |
To the Vikings | L |
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Once in Elsinore | Y |
At the court of old King Hamlet | Z |
Yorick and his boon companions | L |
Sang these ditties | L |
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Once Prince Frederick's Guard | A2 |
Sang them in their smoky barracks | L |
Suddenly the English cannon | I |
Joined the chorus | L |
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Peasants in the field | B2 |
Sailors on the roaring ocean | I |
Students tradesmen pale mechanics | L |
All have sung them | C2 |
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Thou hast been their friend | A |
They alas have left thee friendless | L |
Yet at least by one warm fireside | B |
Art thou welcome | C |
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And as swallows build | D2 |
In these wide old fashioned chimneys | L |
So thy twittering songs shall nestle | E2 |
In my bosom | C |
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Quiet close and warm | F2 |
Sheltered from all molestation | I |
And recalling by their voices | L |
Youth and travel | E2 |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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