...sledges with the bells — Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody fortells! How they tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night While the...Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells— From the jingling and the tinkling...

..."auditory imagery"). "The Bells" is an extended exercise in onomatopoeia, and I quote the first stanza: Hear the sledges with the bells Silver bells! What...tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that ovetsptinlde All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time,...

...single word-repetition than Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Bells," zany as it is, which starts off — Hear the sledges with the bells — Silver bells!...Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells — From the jingling and the tinkling...