It Is The Sinners' Dust-tongued Bell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADC EFCGFC HIJKLM FNOFNP QRSTUV| It is the sinners' dust tongued bell claps me to churches | A |
| When with his torch and hourglass like a sulpher priest | B |
| His beast heel cleft in a sandal | C |
| Time marks a black aisle kindle from the brand of ashes | A |
| Grief with dishevelled hands tear out the altar ghost | D |
| And a firewind kill the candle | C |
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| Over the choir minute I hear the hour chant | E |
| Time's coral saint and the salt grief drown a foul sepulchre | F |
| And a whirlpool drives the prayerwheel | C |
| Moonfall and sailing emperor pale as their tide print | G |
| Hear by death's accident the clocked and dashed down spire | F |
| Strike the sea hour through bellmetal | C |
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| There is loud and dark directly under the dumb flame | H |
| Storm snow and fountain in the weather of fireworks | I |
| Cathedral calm in the pulled house | J |
| Grief with drenched book and candle christens the cherub time | K |
| From the emerald still bell and from the pacing weather cock | L |
| The voice of bird on coral prays | M |
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| Forever it is a white child in the dark skinned summer | F |
| Out of the font of bone and plants at that stone tocsin | N |
| Scales the blue wall of spirits | O |
| From blank and leaking winter sails the child in colour | F |
| Shakes in crabbed burial shawl by sorcerer's insect woken | N |
| Ding dong from the mute turrets | P |
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| I mean by time the cast and curfew rascal of our marriage | Q |
| At nightbreak born in the fat side from an animal bed | R |
| In a holy room in a wave | S |
| And all love's sinners in sweet cloth kneel to a hyleg image | T |
| Nutmeg civet and sea parsley serve the plagued groom and bride | U |
| Who have brought forth the urchin grief | V |
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