Note the onomatopoetic effect of the rhythm.

Notice for example the onomatopoetic effect in 13, 7 and 8:

A crude translation of the words, lacking entirely the onomatopoetic quality of the original goes something like this:

SIRRT, an onomatopoetic word coined by the poet to imitate the sound of the scythe cutting through the grain.

Its name, like that of the minminzemi, is onomatopoetic; but in Izumo the sounds of its chant are given thus:

Even true onomatopoetic words like "bang" or "crack" derive, I suspect, most of their specific quality from their meaning.

About a year later came "The Bells," wonderful for the music of its verse, and the finest onomatopoetic poem in the language.