The Fool Rings His Bells Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDC BEEBFFBB GHIHJKBB BLBLKBK MNOMON HHPPBBQQQ RRASATRMMDKDQDQQ BUUBBBRMMCome Death I'd have a word with thee | A |
And thou poor Innocency | B |
And Love a lad with broken wing | C |
And Pity too | D |
The Fool shall sing to you | D |
As Fools will sing | C |
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Aye music hath small sense | B |
And a time's soon told | E |
And Earth is old | E |
And my poor wits are dense | B |
Yet I have secrets dark my dear | F |
To breathe you all Come near | F |
And lest some hideous listener tells | B |
I'll ring the bells | B |
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They're all at war | G |
Yes yes their bodies go | H |
'Neath burning sun and icy star | I |
To chaunted songs of woe | H |
Dragging cold cannon through a mire | J |
Of rain and blood and spouting fire | K |
The new moon glinting hard on eyes | B |
Wide with insanities | B |
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Hush I use words | B |
I hardly know the meaning of | L |
And the mute birds | B |
Are glancing at Love | L |
From out their shade of leaf and flower | K |
Trembling at treacheries | B |
Which even in noonday cower | K |
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Heed heed not what I said | M |
Of frenzied hosts of men | N |
More fools than I | O |
On envy hatred fed | M |
Who kill and die | O |
Spake I not plainly then | N |
Yet Pity whispered 'Why ' | - |
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Thou silly thing off to thy daisies go | H |
Mine was not news for child to know | H |
And Death no ears hath He hath supped where creep | P |
Eyeless worms in hush of sleep | P |
Yet when he smiles the hand he draws | B |
Athwart his grinning jaws | B |
Faintly the thin bones rattle and there there | Q |
Hearken how my bells in the air | Q |
Drive away care | Q |
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Nay but a dream I had | R |
Of a world all mad | R |
Not simple happy mad like me | A |
Who am mad like an empty scene | S |
Of water and willow tree | A |
Where the wind hath been | T |
But that foul Satan mad | R |
Who rots in his own head | M |
And counts the dead | M |
Not honest one and two | D |
But for the ghosts they were | K |
Brave faithful true | D |
When head in air | Q |
In Earth's clear green and blue | D |
Heaven they did share | Q |
With Beauty who bade them there | Q |
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There now Death goes | B |
Mayhap I have wearied him | U |
Aye and the light doth dim | U |
And asleep's the rose | B |
And tired Innocence | B |
In dreams is hence | B |
Come Love my lad | R |
Nodding that drowsy head | M |
'Tis time thy prayers were said | M |
Walter De La Mare
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