The Virgin With The Bells. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA BCB CDC DEF EGH GIG IEI EFE FCF CJC JFJ FFF FKF KLK LJL JEJ EME MNM NON OPO POP O| Much strange is true And yet so much | A |
| Dan Time thereto of doubtful lays | B |
| He blurs them both beneath his touch | A |
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| In this our tale his part he plays | B |
| At Florence so the legend tells | C |
| There stood a church that men would praise | B |
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| Even where Art the most excels | C |
| For works of price but chief for one | D |
| They called the Virgin with the Bells | C |
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| Gracious she was and featly done | D |
| With crown of gold about the hair | E |
| And robe of blue with stars thereon | F |
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| And sceptre in her hand did bear | E |
| And o'er her in an almond tree | G |
| Three little golden bells there were | H |
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| Writ with Faith Hope and Charity | G |
| None knew from whence she came of old | I |
| Nor whose the sculptor's name should be | G |
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| Of great or small But this they told | I |
| That once from out the blaze of square | E |
| And bickering folk that bought and sold | I |
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| More moved no doubt of heat than prayer | E |
| Came to the church an Umbrian | F |
| Lord of much gold and champaign fair | E |
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| But for all this a hard haught man | F |
| To whom the priests in humbleness | C |
| At once to beg for alms began | F |
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| Praying him grant of his excess | C |
| Such as for poor men's bread might pay | J |
| Or give their saint a gala dress | C |
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| Thereat with scorn he answered Nay | J |
| Most Reverend Far too well ye know | F |
| By guile and wile the fox's way | J |
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| To swell the Church's overflow | F |
| But ere from me the least carline | F |
| Ye win this summer's sky shall snow | F |
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| Or likelier still your doll's eyed queen | F |
| Shall ring her bells but not of craft | K |
| By Bacchus ye are none too lean | F |
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| For fasting folk With that he laughed | K |
| And so across the porphyry floor | L |
| His hand upon his dagger haft | K |
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| Strode and of these was seen no more | L |
| Nor of a truth much marvelled they | J |
| At those his words since gear and store | L |
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| Oft dower shrunk souls But on a day | J |
| While yet again throughout the square | E |
| The buyers in their noisy way | J |
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| Chaffered around the basket ware | E |
| It chanced I but the tale reveal | M |
| Nor true nor false therein declare | E |
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| It chanced that when the priest would kneel | M |
| Before the taper's flickering flame | N |
| Sudden a little tremulous peal | M |
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| From out the Virgin's altar came | N |
| And they that heard must fain recall | O |
| The Umbrian and the words of shame | N |
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| Spoke in his pride and therewithal | O |
| Came news how at that very date | P |
| And hour of time was fixed his fall | O |
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| Who of the Duke was banned the State | P |
| And all his goods and lands as well | O |
| To Holy Church were confiscate | P |
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| Such is the tale the Frati tell | O |
Henry Austin Dobson
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