The Walking Bell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCBC DEDE FGFG ECEC HIHI JBJB DKDK| A | |
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| A CHILD refused to go betimes | B |
| To church like other people | C |
| He roam'd abroad when rang the chimes | B |
| On Sundays from the steeple | C |
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| His mother said Loud rings the bell | D |
| Its voice ne'er think of scorning | E |
| Unless thou wilt behave thee well | D |
| 'Twill fetch thee without warning | E |
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| The child then thought High over head | F |
| The bell is safe suspended | G |
| So to the fields he straightway sped | F |
| As if 'twas school time ended | G |
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| The bell now ceas'd as bell to ring | E |
| Roused by the mother's twaddle | C |
| But soon ensued a dreadful thing | E |
| The bell begins to waddle | C |
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| It waddles fast though strange it seem | H |
| The child with trembling wonder | I |
| Runs off and flies as in a dream | H |
| The bell would draw him under | I |
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| He finds the proper time at last | J |
| And straightway nimbly rushes | B |
| To church to chapel hastening fast | J |
| Through pastures plains and bushes | B |
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| Each Sunday and each feast as well | D |
| His late disaster heeds he | K |
| The moment that he bears the bell | D |
| No other summons needs he | K |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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