Lacock Nunnery. June 24, 1837 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAACCADEDFDF| I stood upon the stone where ELA lay | A |
| The widowed founder of these ancient walls | B |
| Where fancy still on meek devotion calls | B |
| Marking the ivied arch and turret gray | A |
| For her soul's rest eternal rest to pray | A |
| Where visionary nuns yet seem to tread | C |
| A pale dim troop the cloisters of the dead | C |
| Though twice three hundred years have flown away | A |
| But when with silent step and pensive mien | D |
| In weeds as mourning for her sisters gone | E |
| The mistress of this lone monastic scene | D |
| Came and I heard her voice's tender tone | F |
| I said Though centuries have rolled between | D |
| One gentle beauteous nun is left on earth alone | F |
William Lisle Bowles
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