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