The Three Bells Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHI CJKJ LMDM CHN OPCP QBFB FCRC CHSH| BENEATH the low hung night cloud | A |
| That raked her splintering mast | B |
| The good ship settled slowly | C |
| The cruel leak gained fast | B |
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| Over the awful ocean | D |
| Her signal guns pealed out | E |
| Dear God was that Thy answer | F |
| From the horror round about | E |
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| A voice came down the wild wind | G |
| 'Ho ship ahoy ' its cry | H |
| 'Our stout Three Bells of Glasgow | I |
| Shall lay till daylight by ' | - |
| - | |
| Hour after hour crept slowly | C |
| Yet on the heaving swells | J |
| Tossed up and down the ship lights | K |
| The lights of the Three Bells | J |
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| And ship to ship made signals | L |
| Man answered back to man | M |
| While oft to cheer and hearten | D |
| The Three Bells nearer ran | M |
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| And the captain from her taffrail | C |
| Sent down his hopeful cry | H |
| 'Take heart Hold on ' he shouted | N |
| 'The Three Bells shall lay by ' | - |
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| All night across the waters | O |
| The tossing lights shone clear | P |
| All night from reeling taffrail | C |
| The Three Bells sent her cheer | P |
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| And when the dreary watches | Q |
| Of storm and darkness passed | B |
| Just as the wreck lurched under | F |
| All souls were saved at last | B |
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| Sail on Three Bells forever | F |
| In grateful memory sail | C |
| Ring on Three Bells of rescue | R |
| Above the wave and gale | C |
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| Type of the Love eternal | C |
| Repeat the Master's cry | H |
| As tossing through our darkness | S |
| The lights of God draw nigh | H |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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