Southampton Bells Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDBCE FGHFGH A IJKIJK LMNLMN A OPQOPQ PRHPRS| I | A |
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| Long ago some builder thrust | B |
| Heavenward in Southampton town | C |
| His spire and beamed his bells | D |
| Largely conceiving from the dust | B |
| That pinnacle for ringing down | C |
| Orisons and No ls | E |
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| In his imagination rang | F |
| Through generations challenging | G |
| His peal on simple men | H |
| Who as the heart within him sang | F |
| In daily townfaring should sing | G |
| By year and year again | H |
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| II | A |
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| Now often to their ringing go | I |
| The bellmen with lean Time at heel | J |
| Intent on daily cares | K |
| The bells ring high the bells ring low | I |
| The ringers ring the builder's peal | J |
| Of tidings unawares | K |
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| And all the bells might well be dumb | L |
| For any quickening in the street | M |
| Of customary ears | N |
| And so at last proud builders come | L |
| With dreams and virtues to defeat | M |
| Among the clouding years | N |
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| III | A |
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| Now waiting on Southampton sea | O |
| For exile through the silver night | P |
| I hear No l No l | Q |
| Through generations down to me | O |
| Your challenge builder comes aright | P |
| Bell by obedient bell | Q |
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| You wake an hour with me then wide | P |
| Though be the lapses of your sleep | R |
| You yet shall wake again | H |
| And thus old builder on the tide | P |
| Of immortality you keep | R |
| Your way from brain to brain | S |
John Drinkwater
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