Bell Upon Organ Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBAABCC ADAADBBBEAEAFGGHIFJJ| It's all very well | A |
| Said the Bell | A |
| To be the big Organ below | B |
| But the folk come and go | B |
| Said the Bell | A |
| And you never can tell | A |
| What sort of person the Organ will blow | B |
| And besides it is much at the mercy of the weather | C |
| For 'tis all made in pieces and glued together | C |
| - | |
| But up in my cell | A |
| Next door to the sky | D |
| Said the Bell | A |
| I dwell | A |
| Very high | D |
| And with glorious go | B |
| I swing to and fro | B |
| I swing swift or slow | B |
| I swing as I please | E |
| With summons or knell | A |
| I swing at my ease | E |
| Said the Bell | A |
| Not the tallest of men | F |
| Can reach up to touch me | G |
| To smirch me or smutch me | G |
| Or make me do what | H |
| I would not be at | I |
| And then | F |
| The weather can't cause me to shrink or increase | J |
| I chose to be made in one perfect piece | J |
George Macdonald
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