Lockswell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCDEFGHHIJKKJLHH MMLEEAA| Pure fount that welling from this wooded hill | A |
| Dost wander forth as into life's wide vale | B |
| Thou to the traveller dost tell no tale | B |
| Of other years a lone unnoticed rill | A |
| In thy forsaken track unheard of men | C |
| Melting thy own sweet music through the glen | C |
| Time was when other sounds and songs arose | D |
| When o'er the pensive scene at evening's close | E |
| The distant bell was heard or the full chant | F |
| At morn came sounding high and jubilant | G |
| Or stealing on the wildered pilgrim's way | H |
| The moonlight Miserere died away | H |
| Like all things earthly | I |
| Stranger mark the spot | J |
| No echoes of the chiding world intrude | K |
| The structure rose and vanished solitude | K |
| Possessed the woods again old Time forgot | J |
| Passing to wider spoil its place and name | L |
| Since then even as the clouds of yesterday | H |
| Seven hundred years have well nigh passed away | H |
| No wreck remains of all its early pride | M |
| Like its own orisons its fame has died | M |
| But this pure fount through rolling years the same | L |
| Yet lifts its small still voice like penitence | E |
| Or lowly prayer Then pass admonished hence | E |
| Happy thrice happy if through good or ill | A |
| Christian thy heart respond to this forsaken rill | A |
William Lisle Bowles
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