The Church Bells Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDDE FGFGHDHHD BIBIDEDDE| The Viennese authorities have melted down the great bell in St Stephen's to supply metal for guns or muntions Every poor village has made a similar gift Lokal Anzeiger | A |
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| The great bell booms across the town | B |
| Reverberant and slow | C |
| And drifting from their houses down | B |
| The calm eyed people go | C |
| Their feet fall on the portal stones | D |
| Their fathers' fathers trod | E |
| And still the bell with reverent tones | D |
| From cottage nooks and purple thrones | D |
| Is calling souls to God | E |
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| The chapel bells with ardor spake | F |
| Above the poplars tall | G |
| And perfumed Sabbath seemed to wake | F |
| Responsive to their call | G |
| From dappled vale and green hillside | H |
| And nestling village hives | D |
| The peasants came in simple pride | H |
| To hear how their Lord Jesus died | H |
| To sweeten all their lives | D |
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| They boom beyond the battered town | B |
| The hills are belching smoke | I |
| And valleys charred and ranges brown | B |
| Are quaking 'neath the stroke | I |
| The iron roar to Heaven swells | D |
| And domes and steeples nod | E |
| Through cities vast and ferny dells | D |
| And village streets the clamant bells | D |
| Are calling souls to God | E |
Edward Dyson
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