The Lay Of The Bell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDD EEEECECEEFEF GDGDHHII IEIEJKJKJLJL JMJNOOPP QHQHJRJRDBBEESSEEEE TUTUVTWTXYXYTT JHJHXXZZJJJA2A2J JB2JB2BC2BC2XD2XD2E2 QQF2G2ZE2ZZZE2E2QE2Q EEEFFEH2H2JJI2I2E2E2 J2J2ZK2K2L2ZZZM2JJNN 2N2N ZRZRO2O2ZZE2P2NNNNQ2 Q2EFEFEEFR2LR2LR2LR2 R2A2DA2DDS2DS2E2E2EE EDDDDE2E2BBZZFDDEEEE EEDDT2T2TTU2V2V2E2RR R2W2Fast in its prison walls of earth | A |
Awaits the mould of baked clay | B |
Up comrades up and aid the birth | A |
The bell that shall be born to day | B |
Who would honor obtain | C |
With the sweat and the pain | C |
The praise that man gives to the master must buy | D |
But the blessing withal must descend from on high | D |
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And well an earnest word beseems | E |
The work the earnest hand prepares | E |
Its load more light the labor deems | E |
When sweet discourse the labor shares | E |
So let us ponder nor in vain | C |
What strength can work when labor wills | E |
For who would not the fool disdain | C |
Who ne'er designs what he fulfils | E |
And well it stamps our human race | E |
And hence the gift to understand | F |
That man within the heart should trace | E |
Whate'er he fashions with the hand | F |
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From the fir the fagot take | G |
Keep it heap it hard and dry | D |
That the gathered flame may break | G |
Through the furnace wroth and high | D |
When the copper within | H |
Seeths and simmers the tin | H |
Pour quick that the fluid that feeds the bell | I |
May flow in the right course glib and well | I |
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Deep hid within this nether cell | I |
What force with fire is moulding thus | E |
In yonder airy tower shall dwell | I |
And witness wide and far of us | E |
It shall in later days unfailing | J |
Rouse many an ear to rapt emotion | K |
Its solemn voice with sorrow wailing | J |
Or choral chiming to devotion | K |
Whatever fate to man may bring | J |
Whatever weal or woe befall | L |
That metal tongue shall backward ring | J |
The warning moral drawn from all | L |
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See the silvery bubbles spring | J |
Good the mass is melting now | M |
Let the salts we duly bring | J |
Purge the flood and speed the flow | N |
From the dross and the scum | O |
Pure the fusion must come | O |
For perfect and pure we the metal must keep | P |
That its voice may be perfect and pure and deep | P |
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That voice with merry music rife | Q |
The cherished child shall welcome in | H |
What time the rosy dreams of life | Q |
In the first slumber's arms begin | H |
As yet in Time's dark womb unwarning | J |
Repose the days or foul or fair | R |
And watchful o'er that golden morning | J |
The mother love's untiring care | R |
And swift the years like arrows fly | D |
No more with girls content to play | B |
Bounds the proud boy upon his way | B |
Storms through loud life's tumultuous pleasures | E |
With pilgrim staff the wide world measures | E |
And wearied with the wish to roam | S |
Again seeks stranger like the father home | S |
And lo as some sweet vision breaks | E |
Out from its native morning skies | E |
With rosy shame on downcast cheeks | E |
The virgin stands before his eyes | E |
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A nameless longing seizes him | T |
From all his wild compassions flown | U |
Tears strange till then his eyes bedim | T |
He wanders all alone | U |
Blushing he glides where'er she move | V |
Her greeting can transport him | T |
To every mead to deck his love | W |
The happy wild flowers court him | T |
Sweet hope and tender longing ye | X |
The growth of life's first age of gold | Y |
When the heart swelling seems to see | X |
The gates of heaven unfold | Y |
O love the beautiful and brief O prime | T |
Glory and verdure of life's summer time | T |
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Browning o'er the pipes are simmering | J |
Dip this wand of clay within | H |
If like glass the wand be glimmering | J |
Then the casting may begin | H |
Brisk brisk now and see | X |
If the fusion flow free | X |
If happy and welcome indeed were the sign | Z |
If the hard and the ductile united combine | Z |
For still where the strong is betrothed to the weak | J |
And the stern in sweet marriage is blent with the meek | J |
Rings the concord harmonious both tender and strong | J |
So be it with thee if forever united | A2 |
The heart to the heart flows in one love delighted | A2 |
Illusion is brief but repentance is long | J |
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Lovely thither are they bringing | J |
With the virgin wreath the bride | B2 |
To the love feast clearly ringing | J |
Tolls the church bell far and wide | B2 |
With that sweetest holiday | B |
Must the May of life depart | C2 |
With the cestus loosed away | B |
Flies illusion from the heart | C2 |
Yet love lingers lonely | X |
When passion is mute | D2 |
And the blossoms may only | X |
Give way to the fruit | D2 |
The husband must enter | E2 |
The hostile life | Q |
With struggle and strife | Q |
To plant or to watch | F2 |
To snare or to snatch | G2 |
To pray and importune | Z |
Must wager and venture | E2 |
And hunt down his fortune | Z |
Then flows in a current the gear and the gain | Z |
And the garners are filled with the gold of the grain | Z |
Now a yard to the court now a wing to the centre | E2 |
Within sits another | E2 |
The thrifty housewife | Q |
The mild one the mother | E2 |
Her home is her life | Q |
In its circle she rules | E |
And the daughters she schools | E |
And she cautions the boys | E |
With a bustling command | F |
And a diligent hand | F |
Employed she employs | E |
Gives order to store | H2 |
And the much makes the more | H2 |
Locks the chest and the wardrobe with lavender smelling | J |
And the hum of the spindle goes quick through the dwelling | J |
And she hoards in the presses well polished and full | I2 |
The snow of the linen the shine of the wool | I2 |
Blends the sweet with the good and from care and endeavor | E2 |
Rests never | E2 |
Blithe the master where the while | J2 |
From his roof he sees them smile | J2 |
Eyes the lands and counts the gain | Z |
There the beams projecting far | K2 |
And the laden storehouse are | K2 |
And the granaries bowed beneath | L2 |
The blessed golden grain | Z |
There in undulating motion | Z |
Wave the cornfields like an ocean | Z |
Proud the boast the proud lips breathe | M2 |
My house is built upon a rock | J |
And sees unmoved the stormy shock | J |
Of waves that fret below | N |
What chain so strong what girth so great | N2 |
To bind the giant form of fate | N2 |
Swift are the steps of woe | N |
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Now the casting may begin | Z |
See the breach indented there | R |
Ere we run the fusion in | Z |
Halt and speed the pious prayer | R |
Pull the bung out | O2 |
See around and about | O2 |
What vapor what vapor God help us has risen | Z |
Ha the flame like a torrent leaps forth from its prison | Z |
What friend is like the might of fire | E2 |
When man can watch and wield the ire | P2 |
Whate'er we shape or work we owe | N |
Still to that heaven descended glow | N |
But dread the heaven descended glow | N |
When from their chain its wild wings go | N |
When where it listeth wide and wild | Q2 |
Sweeps free Nature's free born child | Q2 |
When the frantic one fleets | E |
While no force can withstand | F |
Through the populous streets | E |
Whirling ghastly the brand | F |
For the element hates | E |
What man's labor creates | E |
And the work of his hand | F |
Impartially out from the cloud | R2 |
Or the curse or the blessing may fall | L |
Benignantly out from the cloud | R2 |
Come the dews the revivers of all | L |
Avengingly out from the cloud | R2 |
Come the levin the bolt and the ball | L |
Hark a wail from the steeple aloud | R2 |
The bell shrills its voice to the crowd | R2 |
Look look red as blood | A2 |
All on high | D |
It is not the daylight that fills with its flood | A2 |
The sky | D |
What a clamor awaking | D |
Roars up through the street | S2 |
What a hell vapor breaking | D |
Rolls on through the street | S2 |
And higher and higher | E2 |
Aloft moves the column of fire | E2 |
Through the vistas and rows | E |
Like a whirlwind it goes | E |
And the air like the stream from the furnace glows | E |
Beams are crackling posts are shrinking | D |
Walls are sinking windows clinking | D |
Children crying | D |
Mothers flying | D |
And the beast the black ruin yet smouldering under | E2 |
Yells the howl of its pain and its ghastly wonder | E2 |
Hurry and skurry away away | B |
The face of the night is as clear as day | B |
As the links in a chain | Z |
Again and again | Z |
Flies the bucket from hand to hand | F |
High in arches up rushing | D |
The engines are gushing | D |
And the flood as a beast on the prey that it hounds | E |
With a roar on the breast of the element bounds | E |
To the grain and the fruits | E |
Through the rafters and beams | E |
Through the barns and garners it crackles and streams | E |
As if they would rend up the earth from its roots | E |
Rush the flames to the sky | D |
Giant high | D |
And at length | T2 |
Wearied out and despairing man bows to their strength | T2 |
With an idle gaze sees their wrath consume | T |
And submits to his doom | T |
Desolate | U2 |
The place and dread | V2 |
For storms the barren bed | V2 |
In the blank voids that cheerful casements were | E2 |
Comes to and fro the melancholy air | R |
And sits despair | R |
And through the ruin blackening in its shroud | R2 |
Peers as it f | W2 |
Friedrich Schiller
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