What was the mood in fairy land v by William shakespeare?

Answer 1

It's dark. There are guards around. The guards are really jumpy. The first line "Who's there?" is asked not by the guard, whose job it is, but by his relief. Shakespeare writes short lines for these actors to increase the tension:

Bar: Who's there?

Fran: Nay, answer me. Stand and unfold yourself.

Bar: Long live the king.

Fran: Barnardo?

Bar: He.

Fran: You come most carefully upon your hour.

Answer 2

Although it appears in your anthology as "Fairy Land V", Shakespeare did not give this verse that title, or any title at all. It is the lyric of a song sung by the character Ariel in Act 1 Scene 2 of Shakespeare's play The Tempest.

Ariel is harassing young Ferdinand, who has just washed up on the beach after his ship was wrecked. Ferdinand believes that his father and everyone on the ship perished. Ariel sings:

Come unto these yellow sands

And then take hands;

Courtsied when you have and kissed

The wild waves whist

Foot it featly here and there

And sweet sprites, the burden bear

Hark, Hark (Bow-wow)

The watch-dogs bark (Bow-wow)

Hark, hark I hear

The strain of strutting chanticleer.

It's silly nonsense, but Ariel is invisible and can fly so Ferdinand cannot figure out where the music is coming from. Ariel carries on (after some eight lines) as follows:

Full fathom five thy father lies

Of his bones are coral made

Those are pearls that were his eyes

Nothing of him that doth fade

But doth suffer a sea-change

Into something rich and strange.

Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell (Ding-dong)

Hark! Now I hear them. (Ding-dong, bell)

Ferdinand says "This ditty doth remember my drowned father." It's still a ditty, a silly song, but it has personal meaning for Ferdinand. It's a little bitter to have to think about his father, so it's not quite as carefree and playful as the first song (or possibly first verse of the same song), but that is still the mood here. Indeed, although it is talking about a corpse in the sea, it is talking comfort, saying that the dead person has been transformed into a magical undersea creature (sort of like that Pirates of the Caribbean movie, but much better looking) who is remembered by the magical people of the sea.