As The Bell Clinks Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB CBDBB CBDBB DBEBB CBDBB FBDBB DBDBB FBDBB| As I left the Halls at Lumley rose the vision of a comely | A |
| Maid last season worshipped dumbly watched with fervor from afar | B |
| And I wondered idly blindly if the maid would greet me kindly | A |
| That was all the rest was settled by the clinking tonga bar | B |
| Yea my life and hers were coupled by the tonga coupling bar | B |
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| For my misty meditation at the second changin station | C |
| Suffered sudden dislocation fled before the tuneless jar | B |
| Of a Wagner obbligato scherzo doublehand staccato | D |
| Played on either pony's saddle by the clacking tonga bar | B |
| Played with human speech I fancied by the jigging jolting bar | B |
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| quot She was sweet quot thought I quot last season but 'twere surely wild unreason | C |
| Such tiny hope to freeze on as was offered by my Star | B |
| When she whispered something sadly 'I we feel your going badly ' quot | D |
| quot And you let the chance escape you quot rapped the rattling tonga bar | B |
| quot What a chance and what an idiot quot clicked the vicious tonga bar | B |
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| Heart of man oh heart of putty Had I gone by Kakahutti | D |
| On the old Hill road and rutty I had 'scaped that fatal car | B |
| But his fortune each must bide by so I watched the milestones slide by | E |
| To quot You call on Her to morrow quot fugue with cymbals by the bar | B |
| You must call on Her to morrow quot post horn gallop by the bar | B |
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| Yet a further stage my goal on we were whirling down to Solon | C |
| With a double lurch and roll on best foot foremost ganz und gar | B |
| quot She was very sweet quot I hinted quot If a kiss had been imprinted quot | D |
| quot 'Would ha' saved a world of trouble quot clashed the busy tonga bar | B |
| quot 'Been accepted or rejected quot banged and clanged the tonga bar | B |
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| Then a notion wild and daring 'spite the income tax's paring | F |
| And a hasty thought of sharing less than many incomes are | B |
| Made me put a question private you can guess what I would drive at | D |
| quot You must work the sum to prove it quot clanked the careless tonga bar | B |
| quot Simple Rule of Two will prove it quot litled back the tonga bar | B |
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| It was under Khyraghaut I muse quot Suppose the maid be haughty | D |
| There are lovers rich and roty wait some wealthy Avatar | B |
| Answer monitor untiring 'twixt the ponies twain perspiring quot | D |
| quot Faint heart never won fair lady quot creaked the straining tonga bar | B |
| quot Can I tell you ere you ask Her quot pounded slow the tonga bar | B |
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| Last the Tara Devi turning showed the lights of Simla burning | F |
| Lit my little lazy yearning to a fiercer flame by far | B |
| As below the Mall we jingled through my very heart it tingled | D |
| Did the iterated order of the threshing tonga bar | B |
| Truy your luck you can't do better quot twanged the loosened tongar bar | B |
Rudyard Kipling
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