Southampton Castle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTU VWXYZDA2B2C2D2FE2F2F G2B2H2I2G2J2K2L2M2L2 N2NO2JP2Q2TR2S2RT2DU 2V2W2JX2Y2| INSCRIBED TO THE MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE | A |
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| The moonlight is without and I could lose | B |
| An hour to gaze though Taste and Splendour here | C |
| As in a lustrous fairy palace reign | D |
| Regardless of the lights that blaze within | E |
| I look upon the wide and silent sea | F |
| That in the shadowy moonbeam sleeps | G |
| How still | H |
| Nor heard to murmur or to move it lies | I |
| Shining in Fancy's eye like the soft gleam | J |
| The eve of pleasant yesterdays | K |
| The clouds | L |
| Have all sunk westward and the host of stars | M |
| Seem in their watches set as gazing on | N |
| While night's fair empress sole and beautiful | O |
| Holds her illustrious course through the mid heavens | P |
| Supreme the spectacle for such she looks | Q |
| Of gazing worlds | R |
| How different is the scene | S |
| That lies beneath this arched window's height | T |
| The town that murmured through the busy day | U |
| Is hushed the roofs one solemn breadth of shade | V |
| Veils but the towers and taper spires above | W |
| The pinnets and the gray embattled walls | X |
| And masts that throng around the southern pier | Y |
| Shine all distinct in light and mark remote | Z |
| O'er yonder elms St Mary's modest fane | D |
| Oh if such views may please to me they shine | A2 |
| How more attractive but few years have passed | B2 |
| Since there I saw youth health and happiness | C2 |
| All circling round an aged sire whose hairs | D2 |
| Are now in peace gone down he was to me | F |
| A friend and almost with a father's smile | E2 |
| Hung o'er my infant Muse The cheerful voice | F2 |
| Of fellowship the song of harmony | F |
| And mirth and wit were there | G2 |
| That scene is passed | B2 |
| Cold death and separation have dissolved | H2 |
| The evening circle of once happy friends | I2 |
| So has it ever fared and so must fare | G2 |
| With all I see the moonlight watery tract | J2 |
| That shines far off beneath the forest shades | K2 |
| What seems it but the mirror of that tide | L2 |
| Which noiseless 'mid the changes of the world | M2 |
| Holds its inevitable course the tide | L2 |
| Of years departing to the distant eye | N2 |
| Still seeming motionless though hurrying on | N |
| From morn till midnight bearing as it flows | O2 |
| The sails of pleasurable barks These gleam | J |
| To day to morrow other passing sails | P2 |
| Catch the like sunshine of the vernal morn | Q2 |
| Our pleasant days are as the moon's brief light | T |
| On the pale ripple passing as it shines | R2 |
| But shall the pensive bard for this lament | S2 |
| Who knows how transitory are all worlds | R |
| Before His eye who made them | T2 |
| Cease the strain | D |
| And welcome still the social intercourse | U2 |
| That soothes the world's loud jarring till the hour | V2 |
| When universal darkness wrapping all | W2 |
| This nether scene a light from heaven shall stream | J |
| Through clouds dividing and a voice be heard | X2 |
| Here only pure and lasting bliss is found | Y2 |
William Lisle Bowles
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