Fairy Sketch Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDDEFAA BGBGHHDDIJAA KLLMGGNN OPOPLLGGNN

SCENE NETLEY ABBEYA
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There was a morrice on the moonlight plainB
And music echoed in the woody gladeC
For fay like forms as of Titania's trainB
Upon a summer eve beneath the shadeC
Of Netley's ivied ruins to the soundD
Of sprightly minstrelsy did beat the groundD
Come take hands and lightly moveE
While our boat in yonder coveF
Rests upon the darkening seaA
Come take hands and follow meA
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Netley thy dim and desolated faneB
Hath heard perhaps the spirits of the nightG
Shrieking at times amid the wind and rainB
Or haply when the full orbed moon shone brightG
Thy glimmering aisles have echoed to the songH
Of fairy Mab who led her shadowy masque alongH
Now as to the sprightly soundD
Of moonlight minstrelsy we beat the groundD
From the pale nooks in accent clearI
Now methinks her voice I hearJ
Sounding o'er the darksome seaA
Come take hands and follow meA
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Here beneath the solemn woodK
When faintly blue is all the skyL
And the moon is still on highL
To the murmurs of the floodM
To the glimpses of the nightG
We perform our airy riteG
Care and pain to us unknownN
To the darkening seas are flownN
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Hear no more life's fretful noiseO
Heed not here pale Envy's stingP
Far from life's distempered joysO
To the waters murmuringP
To the shadows of the skyL
To the moon that rides on highL
To the glimpses of the nightG
We perform our airy riteG
While care and pain to us unknownN
To the darkening seas are flownN

William Lisle Bowles



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