Gisli: The Chieftain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGF HIAI AJKJ ALML NOPO AQLQ ARSR ATUT AVWV AXYZ A2ICI ZB2BB2 C2KSK D2B2E2B2 F2G2H2G2 I2RJ2R K2B2G2B2 L2M2N2M2 AXYZ| To the Goddess Lada prayed | A |
| Gisli holding high his spear | B |
| Bound with buds of spring and laughed | C |
| All his heart to Lada's ear | D |
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| Damp his yellow beard with mead | E |
| Loud the harps clang'd thro the day | F |
| With bruised breasts triumphant rode | G |
| Gisli's galleys in the bay | F |
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| Bards sang in the banquet hall | H |
| Set in loud verse Gisli's fame | I |
| On their lips the war gods laid | A |
| Fire to chaunt their warrior's name | I |
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| To the Love queen Gisli pray'd | A |
| Buds upon his tall spear's tip | J |
| Laughter in his broad blue eyes | K |
| Laughter on his bearded lip | J |
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| To the Spring queen Gisli pray'd | A |
| She with mystic distaff slim | L |
| Spun her hours of love and leaves | M |
| Made the stony headlands dim | L |
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| Dim and green with tender grass | N |
| Blew on ice fields with red mouth | O |
| Blew on lovers hearts and lured | P |
| White swans from the blue arched south | O |
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| To the Love queen Gisli pray'd | A |
| Groan'd far icebergs tall and blue | Q |
| As to Lada's distaff slim | L |
| All their ice locked fires flew | Q |
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| To the Love queen Gisli prayed | A |
| She with red hands caught and spun | R |
| Yellow flames from crater lips | S |
| flames from the waking sun | R |
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| To the Love queen Gisli prayed | A |
| She with loom and beam and spell | T |
| All the subtle fires of earth | U |
| Wove and wove them strong and well | T |
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| To the Spring queen Gisli prayed | A |
| Low the sun the pale sky trod | V |
| Mute her ruddy hand she raised | W |
| Beckon'd back the parting God | V |
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| To the Love queen Gisli prayed | A |
| Weft and woof of flame she wove | X |
| Lada Goddess of the Spring | Y |
| Lada Goddess strong of Love | Z |
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| Sire of the strong chieftain's prayer | A2 |
| Victory with his pulse of flame | I |
| Mead its mother loud he laughed | C |
| Calling on great Lada's name | I |
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| Goddess Lada Queen of Love | Z |
| Here stand I and quaff to thee | B2 |
| Deck for thee with buds my spear | B |
| Give a comely wife to me | B2 |
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| Blow not to my arms a flake | C2 |
| Of crisp snow in maiden guise | K |
| Mists of pallid hair and tips | S |
| Of long ice spears in her eyes | K |
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| When my death sail skims the foam | D2 |
| Strain my oars on Death's black sea | B2 |
| When my foot the Glass Hill seeks | E2 |
| Such a maid may do for me | B2 |
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| Now O Lada mate the flesh | F2 |
| Mate the fire and flame of life | G2 |
| Tho' the soul go still unwed | H2 |
| Give the flesh its fitting wife | G2 |
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| As the galley runs between | I2 |
| Skies with billows closely spun | R |
| Feeling but the wave that leaps | J2 |
| Closest to it in the sun | R |
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| Throbs but to the present kiss | K2 |
| Of the wild lips of the sea | B2 |
| Thus a man joys in his life | G2 |
| Nought of the Beyond knows he | B2 |
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| Goddess here I cast bright buds | L2 |
| Spicy pine boughs at thy feet | M2 |
| Give the flesh its fitting mate | N2 |
| Life is strong and life is sweet | M2 |
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| To the Love queen Gisli pray'd | A |
| Weft and woof of flame she wove | X |
| Lada Goddess of the Spring | Y |
| Lada Goddess strong of Love | Z |
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Isabella Valancy Crawford
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