Analysis of The Church Bells
Edward Dyson 1865 (Ballarat) – 1931 (Melbourne)
The Viennese authorities have melted down the great bell in St. Stephen's to supply metal for guns or muntions. Every poor village has made a similar gift. - Lokal Anzeiger.
The great bell booms across the town,
Reverberant and slow,
And drifting from their houses down
The calm-eyed people go.
Their feet fall on the portal stones
Their fathers' fathers trod;
And still the bell, with reverent tones,
From cottage nooks and purple thrones
Is calling souls to God.
The chapel bells with ardor spake
Above the poplars tall,
And perfumed Sabbath seemed to wake.
Responsive to their call
From dappled vale and green hillside
And nestling village hives
The peasants came in simple pride
To hear how their Lord Jesus died
To sweeten all their lives.
They boom beyond the battered town;
The hills are belching smoke;
And valleys charred and ranges brown
Are quaking 'neath the stroke.
The iron roar to Heaven swells,
And domes and steeples nod;
Through cities vast and ferny dells
And village streets the clamant bells
Are calling souls to God!
Scheme | X ABABCDCCD EFEFGXGGX AHAHIDCID |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 001010011010110110101101111100110110100111 01110101 101 01011101 011101 11110101 110101 010111001 11010101 110111 01011101 01011 00110111 010111 111011 010101 01010101 11111101 110111 11010101 011101 01010101 110101 01011101 010101 1101011 0101011 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,023 |
Words | 181 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 9, 9, 9 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 209 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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