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 night | A |
| And Cartmel bells ring clear | B |
| But I lie far away to night | A |
| Listening with my dear | B |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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