Lacock Nunnery Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAACCADEDFDFI 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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