Joy-bells Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CACA DEDERing your sweet bells but let them be farewells | A |
To the green vista'd gladness of the past | B |
That changed us into soldiers swing your bells | A |
To a joyful chime but let it be the last | B |
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What means this metal in windy belfries hung | C |
When guns are all our need Dissolve these bells | A |
Whose tones are tuned for peace with martial tongue | C |
Let them cry doom and storm the sun with shells | A |
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Bells are like fierce browed prelates who proclaim | D |
That if our Lord returned He'd fight for us | E |
So let our bells and bishops do the same | D |
Shoulder to shoulder with the motor bus | E |
Siegfried Sassoon
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