The Cracked Bell - (twelve Translations From Charles Baudelaire) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDEF GGH HII| 'Tis bitter sweet when winter nights are long | A |
| To watch beside the flames which smoke and twist | B |
| The distant memories which slowly throng | A |
| Brought by the chime soft singing through the mist | B |
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| Happy the sturdy vigorous throated bell | C |
| Who spite of age alert and confident | D |
| Cries hourly like some strong old sentinel | E |
| Flinging the ready challenge from his tent | F |
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| For me my soul is cracked when sick with care | G |
| She strives with songs to people the cold air | G |
| It happens often that her feeble cries | H |
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| Mock the harsh rattle of a man who lies | H |
| Wounded forgotten 'neath a mound of slain | I |
| And dies pinned fast writhing his limbs in pain | I |
John Collings Squire, Sir
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