New Year's Eve, 1913 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD BEFE GAGA GHGH IJIJ GKGK BLFL

O Cartmel bells ring soft to nightA
And Cartmel bells ring clearB
But I lie far away to nightA
Listening with my dearB
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Listening in a frosty landC
Where all the bells are stillD
And the small windowed bell towers standC
Dark under heath and hillD
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I thought that with each dying yearB
As long as life should lastE
The bells of Cartmel I should hearF
Ring out an aged pastE
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The plunging mingling sounds increaseG
Darkness's depth and heightA
The hollow valley gains more peaceG
And ancientness to nightA
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The loveliness the fruitfulnessG
The power of life lived thereH
Return revive more closely pressG
Upon that midnight airH
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But many deaths have place in menI
Before they come to dieJ
Joys must be used and spent and thenI
Abandoned and passed byJ
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Earth is not ours no cherished spaceG
Can hold us from life's flowK
That bears us thither and thence by waysG
We knew not we should goK
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O Cartmel bells ring loud ring clearB
Through midnight deep and hoarL
A year new born and I shall hearF
The Cartmel bells no moreL

Gordon Bottomley



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