Week-night Service Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBBBB CDECDFGGG GHIHIJJ KGLKGLMML| The five old bells | A |
| Are hurrying and eagerly calling | B |
| Imploring protesting | B |
| They know but clamorously falling | B |
| Into gabbling incoherence never resting | B |
| Like spattering showers from a bursten sky rocket dropping | B |
| In splashes of sound endlessly never stopping | B |
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| The silver moon | C |
| That somebody has spun so high | D |
| To settle the question yes or no has caught | E |
| In the net of the night's balloon | C |
| And sits with a smooth bland smile up there in the sky | D |
| Smiling at naught | F |
| Unless the winking star that keeps her company | G |
| Makes little jests at the bells' insanity | G |
| As if he knew aught | G |
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| The patient Night | G |
| Sits indifferent hugged in her rags | H |
| She neither knows nor cares | I |
| Why the old church sobs and brags | H |
| The light distresses her eyes and tears | I |
| Her old blue cloak as she crouches and covers her face | J |
| Smiling perhaps if we knew it at the bells' loud clattering disgrace | J |
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| The wise old trees | K |
| Drop their leaves with a faint sharp hiss of contempt | G |
| While a car at the end of the street goes by with a laugh | L |
| As by degrees | K |
| The poor bells cease and the Night is exempt | G |
| And the stars can chaff | L |
| The ironic moon at their ease while the dim old church | M |
| Is peopled with shadows and sounds and ghosts that lurch | M |
| In its cenotaph | L |
D. H. Lawrence
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