Hymn To Woden Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFAAGGHHII JJDDAAKKAALLFFAACCMM NNAAFFCCKKOODDKA

God of the battle hear our prayerA
By the lifted falchion's glareA
By the uncouth fane sublimeB
Marked with many a Runic rhymeB
By the 'weird sisters' dreadC
That posting through the battle redC
Choose the slain and with them goD
To Valhalla's halls belowD
Where the phantom chiefs prolongE
Their echoing feast a giant throngE
And their dreadful beverage drainF
From the skulls of warriors slainF
God of the battle hear our prayerA
And may we thy banquet shareA
Save us god from slow diseaseG
From pains that the brave spirit freezeG
From the burning fever's rageH
From wailings of unhonoured ageH
Drawing painful his last breathI
Give us in the battle deathI
Let us lift our glittering shieldJ
And perish perish in the fieldJ
Now o'er Cumri's hills of snowD
To death or victory we goD
Hark the chiefs their cars prepareA
See they bind their yellow hairA
Frenzy flashes from their eyeK
They fly our foes before them flyK
Woden in thy empire drearA
Thou the groans of death dost hearA
And welcome to thy dusky hallL
Those that for their country fallL
Hail all hail the godlike trainF
That with thee the goblet drainF
Or with many a huge compeerA
Lift as erst the shadowy spearA
Whilst Hela's inmost caverns dreadC
Echo to their giant treadC
And ten thousand thousand shieldsM
Flash lightning o'er the glimmering fieldsM
Hark the battle shouts beginN
Louder sounds the glorious dinN
Louder than the ice's roarA
Bursting on the thawing shoreA
Or crashing pines that strew the plainF
When the whirlwinds hurl the mainF
Riding through the death field redC
And singling fast the destined deadC
See the fatal sisters flyK
Now my throbbing breast beats highK
Now I urge my panting steedO
Where the foemen thickest bleedO
Soon exulting I shall goD
Woden to thy halls belowD
Or o'er the victims as they dieK
Chaunt the song of VictoryA

William Lisle Bowles



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