Fairy Sketch - Scene - Netley Abbey Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDEFF AGAGHHCCIJFF KLLMGGNN OPOPLLGGNNThere was a morrice on the moonlight plain | A |
And music echoed in the woody glade | B |
For fay like forms as of Titania's train | A |
Upon a summer eve beneath the shade | B |
Of Netley's ivied ruins to the sound | C |
Of sprightly minstrelsy did beat the ground | C |
Come take hands and lightly move | D |
While our boat in yonder cove | E |
Rests upon the darkening sea | F |
Come take hands and follow me | F |
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Netley thy dim and desolated fane | A |
Hath heard perhaps the spirits of the night | G |
Shrieking at times amid the wind and rain | A |
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 | C |
Of moonlight minstrelsy we beat the ground | C |
From the pale nooks in accent clear | I |
Now methinks her voice I hear | J |
Sounding o'er the darksome sea | F |
Come take hands and follow me | F |
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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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