New Year's Eve, 1913 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD BEFE GAGA GHGH IJIJ GKGK BLFLO Cartmel bells ring soft to night | A |
And Cartmel bells ring clear | B |
But I lie far away to night | A |
Listening with my dear | B |
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Listening in a frosty land | C |
Where all the bells are still | D |
And the small windowed bell towers stand | C |
Dark under heath and hill | D |
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I thought that with each dying year | B |
As long as life should last | E |
The bells of Cartmel I should hear | F |
Ring out an aged past | E |
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The plunging mingling sounds increase | G |
Darkness's depth and height | A |
The hollow valley gains more peace | G |
And ancientness to night | A |
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The loveliness the fruitfulness | G |
The power of life lived there | H |
Return revive more closely press | G |
Upon that midnight air | H |
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But many deaths have place in men | I |
Before they come to die | J |
Joys must be used and spent and then | I |
Abandoned and passed by | J |
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Earth is not ours no cherished space | G |
Can hold us from life's flow | K |
That bears us thither and thence by ways | G |
We knew not we should go | K |
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O Cartmel bells ring loud ring clear | B |
Through midnight deep and hoar | L |
A year new born and I shall hear | F |
The Cartmel bells no more | L |
Gordon Bottomley
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