The Bells Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFGHHAAIJFF KLMMFF| Shadow and light both strove to be | A |
| The eight bell ringers' company | A |
| As with his gliding rope in hand | B |
| Counting his changes each did stand | B |
| While rang and trembled every stone | C |
| To music by the bell mouths blown | C |
| Till the bright clouds that towered on high | D |
| Seemed to re echo cry with cry | D |
| Still swang the clappers to and fro | E |
| When in the far spread fields below | E |
| I saw a ploughman with his team | F |
| Lift to the bells and fix on them | G |
| His distant eyes as if he would | H |
| Drink in the utmost sound he could | H |
| While near him sat his children three | A |
| And in the green grass placidly | A |
| Played undistracted on as if | I |
| What music earthly bells might give | J |
| Could only faintly stir their dream | F |
| And stillness make more lovely seem | F |
| Soon night hid horses children all | K |
| In sleep deep and ambrosial | L |
| Yet yet it seemed from star to star | M |
| Welling now near now faint and far | M |
| Those echoing bells rang on in dream | F |
| And stillness made even lovelier seem | F |
Walter De La Mare
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