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 F2ILE2| Welcome 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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