Gisli: The Chieftain Poem Rhyme Scheme

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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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