Asgard
Come ye children, gather round,
Come listen to my rhyme,
And tell I will a tale to you,
A tale from an ancient time.
Long ago, of a time renown,
Another world was claimed,
And on that world, a city gold,
And Asgard, it was named.
In Asgard lived a warrior race,
Of power, and of might,
And gods they were to mortal men,
Gods of Truth, and Light.
To reach this land, a bridge did stand,
Since ancient times alost,
Few mortals pierced the hidden veil,
Of the rainbow bridge, Bifrost.
Bifrost linked all worlds as one,
Including Jotumheim,
Where giants cruel, alone their ruled,
Since the dawn of time.
With battle lust and great distrust,
The gods and giants fought,
For the gods they knew, as giants grew,
The more evil did they wrought.
But as the Norns foretold, the gods of old,
Would someday meet their end,
That Ragnarok, will unlock,
An afterworld their souls to send.
So ages passed, the end it came,
And Ragnarok was at hand,
So meet they did to fight that fight,
And death laid waste the land.
The gods, they fought with valiant hearts,
But died upon that day,
And 'though the giants won that war,
They never lived to say.
But few survived that final fight,
And grew strong to the last,
And grow they did to take the place,
Of the ancient gods of past.
So if you pierce a hidden veil,
And find that bridge of old,
Then search for me of Asgard’s truth,
And find that city gold.
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Written on 1985
Submitted by Warbard on September 24, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABCB XDED FGXG HAIA XBXB XJCJ EKXK XHGH XLXL GMFM IEXE |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,343 |
Words | 261 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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