William Lisle Bowles

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Fairy Sketch - Scene - Netley Abbey Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDEFF AGAGHHCCIJFF KLLMGGNN OPOPLLGGNN

There was a morrice on the moonlight plainA
And music echoed in the woody gladeB
For fay like forms as of Titania's trainA
Upon a summer eve beneath the shadeB
Of Netley's ivied ruins to the soundC
Of sprightly minstrelsy did beat the groundC
Come take hands and lightly moveD
While our boat in yonder coveE
Rests upon the darkening seaF
Come take hands and follow meF
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Netley thy dim and desolated faneA
Hath heard perhaps the spirits of the nightG
Shrieking at times amid the wind and rainA
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 soundC
Of moonlight minstrelsy we beat the groundC
From the pale nooks in accent clearI
Now methinks her voice I hearJ
Sounding o'er the darksome seaF
Come take hands and follow meF
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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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