Easter Bells Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDBE FGHI GGJJ KLIM NNII OOPP| Oh bells of Easter morn oh solemn sounding bells | A |
| Which fill the hollow cells | A |
| Of the blue April air with a most sweet refrain | B |
| Ye fill my heart with pain | B |
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| For when as from a thousand holy altar fires | C |
| A thousand resonant spires | D |
| Sent up the offering the glad thanksgiving strain | B |
| The Lord is risen again | E |
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| He went from us who shall return no more no more | F |
| I say the sad words o'er | G |
| And they are mixed and blent with your triumphant psalm | H |
| Like bitterness and balm | I |
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| We stood with him beside the black and silent river | G |
| Cold cold and soundless ever | G |
| But there our feet were stayed unloosed our clasping fond | J |
| And he has passed beyond | J |
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| And still that solemn hymn like smoke of sacrifice | K |
| Clomb the blue April skies | L |
| And on our anguish placed its sacramental chrism | I |
| Behold the Lord is risen | M |
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| Oh bells of Easter morn your mighty voices reach | N |
| A deeper depth than speech | N |
| We heard Because He liveth they shall live with Him | I |
| This was our Easter hymn | I |
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| And while the slow vibrations swell and sink and cease | O |
| They bring divinest peace | O |
| For we commit our best beloved to the dust | P |
| In sure and certain trust | P |
Kate Seymour Maclean
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