To Elizabeth Ward Perkins Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GHHG IJJI KLLK MNOM PLLP| Dear Bessie would my tired rhyme | A |
| Had force to rise from apathy | B |
| And shaking off its lethargy | B |
| Ring word tones like a Christmas chime | A |
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| But in my soul's high belfry chill | C |
| The bitter wind of doubt has blown | D |
| The summer swallows all have flown | D |
| The bells are frost bound mute and still | C |
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| Upon the crumbling boards the snow | E |
| Has drifted deep the clappers hang | F |
| Prismed with icicles their clang | F |
| Unheard since ages long ago | E |
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| The rope I pull is stiff and cold | G |
| My straining ears detect no sound | H |
| Except a sigh as round and round | H |
| The wind rocks through the timbers old | G |
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| Below I know the church is bright | I |
| With haloed tapers warm with prayer | J |
| But here I only feel the air | J |
| Of icy centuries of night | I |
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| Beneath my feet the snow is lit | K |
| And gemmed with colours red and blue | L |
| Topaz and green where light falls through | L |
| The saints that in the windows sit | K |
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| Here darkness seems a spectred thing | M |
| Voiceless and haunting while the stars | N |
| Mock with a light of long dead years | O |
| The ache of present suffering | M |
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| Silent and winter killed I stand | P |
| No carol hymns my debt to you | L |
| But take this frozen thought in lieu | L |
| And thaw its music in your hand | P |
Amy Lowell
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