Sunday, September 13, 2009
Christmas Comments
Rating: ★3.5
The bells of waiting Advent ring,
The Tortoise stove is lit again
And lamp-oil light across the night
Has caught the streaks of winter rain
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John Knight
13 September 2009
This is my favorite POEM out of the thousands of POEMS I have read in the last seventy years. It is perfect in metre - rhyme and form. The subject matter is also significant. I hope you all enjoy it! Yours in Poetry - JOHN.
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8/5/2025 3:11:35 PM # 1.0.0
It seems a pity that such an accomplished poet as Betjeman would spoil his rhyme scheme in the first stanza by not rhyming lines 1/3, and substituting internal rhyme (waiting/ring and light/night) . It's still a good poem, by a good poet, though.