The Song Of Harold Harfager Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDDE DDBBBBDDFG CCHHIJKKFG CCLLMMKKF| The sun is rising dimly red | A |
| The wind is wailing low and dread | A |
| From his cliff the eagle sallies | B |
| Leaves the wolf his darksome valleys | B |
| In the mist the ravens hover | C |
| Peep the wild dogs from the cover | C |
| Screaming croaking baying yelling | D |
| Each in his wild accents telling | D |
| 'Soon we feast on dead and dying | D |
| Fair haired Harald's flag is flying ' | E |
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| Many a crest in air is streaming | D |
| Many a helmet darkly gleaming | D |
| Many an arm the axe uprears | B |
| Doomed to hew the wood of spears | B |
| All around the crowded ranks | B |
| Horses neigh and armor clanks | B |
| Chiefs are shouting clarions ringing | D |
| Louder still the bard is singing | D |
| 'Gather footmen gather horsemen | F |
| To the field ye valiant Norsemen | G |
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| 'Halt ye not not for food or slumber | C |
| View not vantage count not number | C |
| Jolly reapers forward still | H |
| Grow the crop on vale or hill | H |
| Thick or scattered stiff or lithe | I |
| It shall down before the scythe | J |
| Forward with your sickles bright | K |
| Reap the harvest of the fight | K |
| Onward footmen onward horsemen | F |
| To the charge ye gallant Norsemen | G |
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| 'Fatal Choosers of the Slaughter | C |
| O'er you hovers Odin's daughter | C |
| Hear the choice she spreads before ye | L |
| Victory and wealth and glory | L |
| Or old Valhalla's roaring hail | M |
| Her ever circling mead and ale | M |
| Where for eternity unite | K |
| The joys of wassail and of fight | K |
| Headlong forward foot and horsemen | F |
| Charge and fight and die like Norsemen ' | - |
Sir Walter Scott
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