The Carillon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACC DEEDFF GHHGII JKKLMM| Alone | A |
| I sit in the dusk and see | B |
| Surely the living faces dear to me | B |
| Of comrades who have thrown | A |
| All that they had the fruit of all desire | C |
| Upon an altar fire | C |
| - | |
| They heard | D |
| Above all clamour of the crowd | E |
| The music of their own hearts throbbing loud | E |
| Until the air was stirred | D |
| Into a summoning harmony and so | F |
| We saw them rise and go | F |
| - | |
| The sound | G |
| That love set ringing in those years | H |
| Of agony exultation voiceless fears | H |
| And hopes now underground | G |
| Shall not be silenced it is thrilling yet | I |
| And we shall not forget | I |
| - | |
| But clear | J |
| The mellow tone of mingled notes | K |
| Triumph and sorrow made one spirit floats | K |
| To my prophetic ear | L |
| That is their music echoing echoing still | M |
| From our remembering hill | M |
John Le Gay Brereton
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