The Bells Of Shandon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDECFFFGAAHG IAAAJJIAIIIGAAHG IAIAKKKLFFFGAAKG IIMKNNKKOPOGAAKGWith deep affection | A |
And recollection | A |
I often think of | B |
Those Shandon bells | C |
Whose sounds so wild would | D |
In the days of childhood | D |
Fling around my cradle | E |
Their magic spells | C |
On this I ponder | F |
Where'er I wander | F |
And thus grow fonder | F |
Sweet Cork of thee | G |
With thy bells of Shandon | A |
That sound so grand on | A |
The pleasant waters | H |
Of the River Lee | G |
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I've heard bells chiming | I |
Full many a clime in | A |
Tolling sublime in | A |
Cathedral shrine | A |
While at a glib rate | J |
Brass tongues would vibrate | J |
But all their music | I |
Spoke naught like thine | A |
For memory dwelling | I |
On each proud swelling | I |
Of the belfry knelling | I |
Its bold notes free | G |
Made the bells of Shandon | A |
Sound far more grand on | A |
The pleasant waters | H |
Of the River Lee | G |
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I've heard bells tolling | I |
Old Adrian's Mole in | A |
Their thunder rolling | I |
From the Vatican | A |
And cymbals glorious | K |
Swinging uproarious | K |
In the gorgeous turrets | K |
Of Notre Dame | L |
But thy sounds were sweeter | F |
Than the dome of Peter | F |
Flings o'er the Tiber | F |
Pealing solemnly | G |
O the bells of Shandon | A |
Sound far more grand on | A |
The pleasant waters | K |
Of the River Lee | G |
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There 's a bell in Moscow | I |
While on tower and kiosk O | I |
In Saint Sophia | M |
The Turkman gets | K |
And loud in air | N |
Calls men to prayer | N |
From the tapering summits | K |
Of tall minarets | K |
Such empty phantom | O |
I freely grant them | P |
But there 's an anthem | O |
More dear to me | G |
'Tis the bells of Shandon | A |
That sound so grand on | A |
The pleasant waters | K |
Of the River Lee | G |
Francis Mahony
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