Fairy Sketch Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDDEFAA BGBGHHDDIJAA KLLMGGNN OPOPLLGGNN| SCENE NETLEY ABBEY | A |
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| There was a morrice on the moonlight plain | B |
| And music echoed in the woody glade | C |
| For fay like forms as of Titania's train | B |
| Upon a summer eve beneath the shade | C |
| Of Netley's ivied ruins to the sound | D |
| Of sprightly minstrelsy did beat the ground | D |
| Come take hands and lightly move | E |
| While our boat in yonder cove | F |
| Rests upon the darkening sea | A |
| Come take hands and follow me | A |
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| Netley thy dim and desolated fane | B |
| Hath heard perhaps the spirits of the night | G |
| Shrieking at times amid the wind and rain | B |
| Or haply when the full orbed moon shone bright | G |
| Thy glimmering aisles have echoed to the song | H |
| Of fairy Mab who led her shadowy masque along | H |
| Now as to the sprightly sound | D |
| Of moonlight minstrelsy we beat the ground | D |
| From the pale nooks in accent clear | I |
| Now methinks her voice I hear | J |
| Sounding o'er the darksome sea | A |
| Come take hands and follow me | A |
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| Here beneath the solemn wood | K |
| When faintly blue is all the sky | L |
| And the moon is still on high | L |
| To the murmurs of the flood | M |
| To the glimpses of the night | G |
| We perform our airy rite | G |
| Care and pain to us unknown | N |
| To the darkening seas are flown | N |
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| Hear no more life's fretful noise | O |
| Heed not here pale Envy's sting | P |
| Far from life's distempered joys | O |
| To the waters murmuring | P |
| To the shadows of the sky | L |
| To the moon that rides on high | L |
| To the glimpses of the night | G |
| We perform our airy rite | G |
| While care and pain to us unknown | N |
| To the darkening seas are flown | N |
William Lisle Bowles
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