Bell Birds Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBBAA CCDDEEFF BBFFGGAA BBHHEEBB HHFFBBBBBB| By channels of coolness the echoes are calling | A |
| And down the dim gorges I hear the creek falling | A |
| It lives in the mountain where moss and the sedges | B |
| Touch with their beauty the banks and the ledges | B |
| Through brakes of the cedar and sycamore bowers | B |
| Struggles the light that is love to the flowers | B |
| And softer than slumber and sweeter than singing | A |
| The notes of the bell birds are running and ringing | A |
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| The silver voiced bell birds the darlings of day time | C |
| They sing in September their songs of the May time | C |
| When shadows wax strong and the thunder bolts hurtle | D |
| They hide with their fear in the leaves of the myrtle | D |
| When rain and the sunbeams shine mingled together | E |
| They start up like fairies that follow fair weather | E |
| And straightway the hues of their feathers unfolden | F |
| Are the green and the purple the blue and the golden | F |
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| October the maiden of bright yellow tresses | B |
| Loiters for love in these cool wildernesses | B |
| Loiters knee deep in the grasses to listen | F |
| Where dripping rocks gleam and the leafy pools glisten | F |
| Then is the time when the water moons splendid | G |
| Break with their gold and are scattered or blended | G |
| Over the creeks till the woodlands have warning | A |
| Of songs of the bell bird and wings of the morning | A |
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| Welcome as waters unkissed by the summers | B |
| Are the voices of bell birds to thirsty far comers | B |
| When fiery December sets foot in the forest | H |
| And the need of the wayfarer presses the sorest | H |
| Pent in the ridges for ever and ever | E |
| The bell birds direct him to spring and to river | E |
| With ring and with ripple like runnels whose torrents | B |
| Are toned by the pebbles and leaves in the currents | B |
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| Often I sit looking back to a childhood | H |
| Mixt with the sights and the sounds of the wildwood | H |
| Longing for power and the sweetness to fashion | F |
| Lyrics with beats like the heart beats of passion | F |
| Songs interwoven of lights and of laughters | B |
| Borrowed from bell birds in far forest rafters | B |
| So I might keep in the city and alleys | B |
| The beauty and strength of the deep mountain valleys | B |
| Charming to slumber the pain of my losses | B |
| With glimpses of creeks and a vision of mosses | B |
Henry Kendall
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