Reuses the line "Keeping time, time, time/In a sort of Runic rhyme", which recalls the idea that the bell music is somehow magical . He repeats this phrase a few times, but instead of seeing the happy images found in the first verse, it is played against words that share the same melancholic tone as the rest of the first verse. An example: “Keeping time, time, time,/in a sort of runic rhyme/As the bells ring.” The contrast between these lines, especially with the previous context we have from the first stanza, creates an interesting contradiction that carries the poem through to the end, as its sing-song quality goes from pleasant and jovial to something much more