The Bell From Europe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDB EFGHIJ KLMLNOL PQRSR| The tower bell in the Tenth Street Church | A |
| Rang out nostalgia for the refugee | B |
| Who knew the source of bells by sound | C |
| We liked it but in ignorance | D |
| One meets authorities on bells infrequently | B |
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| Europe alone made bells with such a tone | E |
| Herr Mannheim said The bell | F |
| Struck midnight and it shook the room | G |
| He had heard bells in Leipzig Chartres Berlin | H |
| Paris Vienna Brussels Rome | I |
| He was a white faced man with sad enormous eyes | J |
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| Reader for me that bell marked nights | K |
| Of restless tossing in this narrow bed | L |
| The quarrels the slamming of a door | M |
| The kind words friends for drinks the books we read | L |
| Breakfasts with streets in rain | N |
| It rang from europe all the time | O |
| That was what Mannheim said | L |
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| It is good to know now that the bell strikes noon | P |
| In this day's sun the hedges are Episcopalian | Q |
| As noon is marked by the twelve iron beats | R |
| The rector moves ruminantly among the gravestones | S |
| And the sound of a dead Europe hangs in the streets | R |
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