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Funeral tolling of a bell rung muffled and slowly, with a significant gap between strikes echos the Three Bells traditionally rung around the time of a death:
=> First bell was the "Passing bell" to warn of impending death
=> Second Bell was the Death knell, rung immediately after the death,
=> Third Bell was the "Lych bell", was rung at the funeral as the procession approached the church.
The funeral tolling of a single bell rung very slowly echos the sound of these three bells.
NOTE: Uses the new poetry form called THE BELL, which is an elongated version of a Cinquain. It has 9 lines and rigid syllable count of 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 8, 2, 1, respectively. Usually presented with centre alignment [center ..../center]. The Ninette form (nine lines with syllables increasing and then decreasing) is very similar to the BELL form.