In a similar manner, the pupil can memorise the three remaining stanzas.
Having heretofore learned the order of the four different kinds of bells, and having dealt with the first or "silver" bells, we know that the next or second stanza is concerned with the "golden" bells. Similarly, when we finish the second stanza, we know that the third stanza deals with the "brazen" bells, and the last with the "iron" bells.
No further hints need be offered except perhaps in regard to the last ten lines of the last stanza.
Notice the coincidences, the resemblances, or Inclusions, the Exclusions, and the Concurrences. "Keeping time, time, time, in a sort of Runic rhyme," occurs three times--but on the third appearance of that phrase, there is a change which must be observed; for it bears this form: "Keeping time, time, time, _as he knells, knells, knells, in a happy_ Runic rhyme." But the main difficulty with most students seems to be to remember _the number of times_ the word "bells" is repeated in the different lines. We must keep to the text and not resort to any foreign matter to help the feeble memory. The words _pæan_, _throbbing_, _sobbing_, _rolling_ and _tolling_ occur in the lines where the "bells" are mentioned (except in that next to the last line, where "bells" occurs three times, and there is no other word in that line), and in the last line "bells" is found once, and the words "moaning" and "groaning" appear. Memorise these seven words by Analysis, to wit: pæan, throbbing, sobbing, rolling, tolling, moaning and groaning. Thus _pæan_--a song of triumph--might cause heart _throbbing_, an inward act accompanied in the present instance by _sobbing_, and this outward manifestation of grief would be intensified by the _rolling_ of the bells and their _tolling_. _Moaning_ and _groaning_ are figurative expressions for the moaning and groaning of the mourners.
Now the figures 2, 4, 1, 4, 8, 1 (easily learned by analysis as 2, 4, 1 and 4, 8, 1, or 2, 4 with 1 following, and 4, 8, with 1 following, or 2, 4 with 1 following, and [double 2, 4] 4, 8 and 1 following) give the _number of times_ the word "bells" occurs in connection with the words just learned. Opposite the line where _tolling_ occurs we have marked 8, since "bells" occurs in that line five times and three times in the next line, where no other word is found.