Hear the tolling of the bells--iron bells! What a world of solemn thought their monody compels! In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats is a groan. And the people--ah, the people-- They that dwell up in the steeple, all alone! And who tolling, tolling, tolling, in that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling on the human heart a stone-- They are neither man nor woman-- They are neither brute nor human--they are Ghouls: And their king it is who tolls; And he rolls, rolls, rolls, rolls a pæan from the bells! And his merry bosom swells with the pæan of the bells! And he dances and he yells; Keeping time, time, time, in a sort of Runic rhyme, To the pæan of the bells--of the bells; Keeping time, time, time, in a sort of Runic rhyme, To the throbbing of the bells--of the bells, bells, bells, To the sobbing of the bells; keeping time, time, time, As he knells, knells, knells, in a happy Runic rhyme, To the rolling of the bells--of the bells, bells, bells-- To the tolling of the bells, of the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells-- To the moaning and the groaning of the bells. EDGAR A. POE. APPLICATION OF THE ANALYTIC-SYNTHETIC METHOD. This method can be applied in several different ways according to the idiosyncrasies of different students. One way is as follows:--"Hear the sledges with the bells--silver bells." Applying this method, we have--1. Hear the sledges; 2. Hear the sledges _with the bells_; 3. Hear the sledges with the bells--_bells_; 4. Hear the sledges with the bells--_silver_ bells. Or, if we use the Interrogatory Analysis Method we could proceed thus: 1. What act of the mind do we exercise in regard to the sledges with the bells--silver bells? "_Hear_ the sledges with the bells--silver bells." 2. What kind of a vehicle do we hear with the bells? "Hear _the sledges_ with the bells--silver bells." 3. What is it we hear in connection with the sledges? "Hear the sledges with _the bells_--silver _bells_." 4. What kind of bells do we hear? "Hear the sledges with the bells--_silver_ bells." We advance to the second line, which is a reflection on the facts stated in the first line. The two lines are thus connected through the operation of cause, or occasion. [Con.] "What a world of merriment their melody foretells." We will henceforth only use the Analytic-Synthetic Method. 1. Melody foretells. 2. _Their_ melody foretells. 3. _What merriment_ their melody foretells. 4. What _a world_ of merriment their melody foretells. Having seen that the second line grows out of the first, and having memorised both we can recall them together thus: 1. Hear the sledges with the bells--silver bells-- 2. What a world of merriment their melody foretells!