Ring Out , Wild Bells Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFGE HIIJ KLLK MBBN OPPQ RSSRRing out wild bells to the wild sky | A |
The flying cloud the frosty light | B |
The year is dying in the night | B |
Ring out wild bells and let him die | A |
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Ring out the old ring in the new | C |
Ring happy bells across the snow | D |
The year is going let him go | D |
Ring out the false ring in the true | C |
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Ring out the grief that saps the mind | E |
For those that here we see no more | F |
Ring out the feud of rich and poor | G |
Ring in redress to all mankind | E |
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Ring out a slowly dying cause | H |
And ancient forms of party strife | I |
Ring in the nobler modes of life | I |
With sweeter manners purer laws | J |
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Ring out the want the care the sin | K |
The faithless coldness of the times | L |
Ring out ring out my mournful rhymes | L |
But ring the fuller minstrel in | K |
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Ring out false pride in place and blood | M |
The civic slander and the spite | B |
Ring in the love of truth and right | B |
Ring in the common love of good | N |
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Ring out old shapes of foul disease | O |
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold | P |
Ring out the thousand wars of old | P |
Ring in the thousand years of peace | Q |
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Ring in the valiant man and free | R |
The larger heart the kindlier hand | S |
Ring out the darkness of the land | S |
Ring in the Christ that is to be | R |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Marianne: It reminds me of the New Years of my childhood.
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