The Fool Rings His Bells Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDC BEEBFFBB GHIHJKBB BLBLKBK MNOMON HHPPBBQQQ RRASATRMMDKDQDQQ BUUBBBRMM

Come Death I'd have a word with theeA
And thou poor InnocencyB
And Love a lad with broken wingC
And Pity tooD
The Fool shall sing to youD
As Fools will singC
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Aye music hath small senseB
And a time's soon toldE
And Earth is oldE
And my poor wits are denseB
Yet I have secrets dark my dearF
To breathe you all Come nearF
And lest some hideous listener tellsB
I'll ring the bellsB
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They're all at warG
Yes yes their bodies goH
'Neath burning sun and icy starI
To chaunted songs of woeH
Dragging cold cannon through a mireJ
Of rain and blood and spouting fireK
The new moon glinting hard on eyesB
Wide with insanitiesB
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Hush I use wordsB
I hardly know the meaning ofL
And the mute birdsB
Are glancing at LoveL
From out their shade of leaf and flowerK
Trembling at treacheriesB
Which even in noonday cowerK
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Heed heed not what I saidM
Of frenzied hosts of menN
More fools than IO
On envy hatred fedM
Who kill and dieO
Spake I not plainly thenN
Yet Pity whispered 'Why '-
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Thou silly thing off to thy daisies goH
Mine was not news for child to knowH
And Death no ears hath He hath supped where creepP
Eyeless worms in hush of sleepP
Yet when he smiles the hand he drawsB
Athwart his grinning jawsB
Faintly the thin bones rattle and there thereQ
Hearken how my bells in the airQ
Drive away careQ
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Nay but a dream I hadR
Of a world all madR
Not simple happy mad like meA
Who am mad like an empty sceneS
Of water and willow treeA
Where the wind hath beenT
But that foul Satan madR
Who rots in his own headM
And counts the deadM
Not honest one and twoD
But for the ghosts they wereK
Brave faithful trueD
When head in airQ
In Earth's clear green and blueD
Heaven they did shareQ
With Beauty who bade them thereQ
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There now Death goesB
Mayhap I have wearied himU
Aye and the light doth dimU
And asleep's the roseB
And tired InnocenceB
In dreams is henceB
Come Love my ladR
Nodding that drowsy headM
'Tis time thy prayers were saidM

Walter De La Mare



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