Mariana In The South Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDDCEFEF GHGHIJJKEFEF LMLMNOONEFEF OOOOPQQPEFEF RKRKSOOSEFEF GTGTDUUDEFEF UDUDSOOSEFEF VMVMOWXOEFEFWith one black shadow at its feet | A |
The house thro' all the level shines | B |
Close latticed to the brooding heat | A |
And silent in its dusty vines | B |
A faint blue ridge upon the right | C |
An empty river bed before | D |
And shallows on a distant shore | D |
In glaring sand and inlets bright | C |
But Aye Mary made she moan | E |
And Aye Mary night and morn | F |
And Ah she sang to be all alone | E |
To live forgotten and love forlorn | F |
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She as her carol sadder grew | G |
From brow and bosom slowly down | H |
Thro' rosy taper fingers drew | G |
Her streaming curls of deepest brown | H |
To left and right and made appear | I |
Still lighted in a secret shrine | J |
Her melancholy eyes divine | J |
The home of woe without a tear | K |
And Aye Mary was her moan | E |
Madonna sad is night and morn | F |
And Ah she sang to be all alone | E |
To live forgotten and love forlorn | F |
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Till all the crimson changed and past | L |
Into deep orange o'er the sea | M |
Low on her knees herself she cast | L |
Before Our Lady murmur'd she | M |
Complaining Mother give me grace | N |
To help me of my weary load | O |
And on the liquid mirror glow'd | O |
The clear perfection of her face | N |
Is this the form she made her moan | E |
That won his praises night and morn | F |
And Ah she said but I wake alone | E |
I sleep forgotten I wake forlorn | F |
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Nor bird would sing nor lamb would bleat | O |
Nor any cloud would cross the vault | O |
But day increased from heat to heat | O |
On stony drought and steaming salt | O |
Till now at noon she slept again | P |
And seem'd knee deep in mountain grass | Q |
And heard her native breezes pass | Q |
And runlets babbling down the glen | P |
She breathed in sleep a lower moan | E |
And murmuring as at night and morn | F |
She thought My spirit is here alone | E |
Walks forgotten and is forlorn | F |
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Dreaming she knew it was a dream | R |
She felt he was and was not there | K |
She woke the babble of the stream | R |
Fell and without the steady glare | K |
Shrank one sick willow sere and small | S |
The river bed was dusty white | O |
And all the furnace of the light | O |
Struck up against the blinding wall | S |
She whisper'd with a stifled moan | E |
More inward than at night or morn | F |
Sweet Mother let me not here alone | E |
Live forgotten and die forlorn | F |
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And rising from her bosom drew | G |
Old letters breathing of her worth | T |
For Love they said must needs be true | G |
To what is loveliest upon earth | T |
An image seem'd to pass the door | D |
To look at her with slight and say | U |
But now thy beauty flows away | U |
So be alone for evermore | D |
O cruel heart she changed her tone | E |
And cruel love whose end is scorn | F |
Is this the end to be left alone | E |
To live forgotten and die forlorn | F |
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But sometimes in the falling day | U |
An image seem'd to pass the door | D |
To look into her eyes and say | U |
But thou shalt be alone no more | D |
And flaming downward over all | S |
From heat to heat the day decreased | O |
And slowly rounded to the east | O |
The one black shadow from the wall | S |
The day to night she made her moan | E |
The day to night the night to morn | F |
And day and night I am left alone | E |
To live forgotten and love forlorn | F |
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At eve a dry cicala sung | V |
There came a sound as of the sea | M |
Backward the lattice blind she flung | V |
And lean'd upon the balcony | M |
There all in spaces rosy bright | O |
Large Hesper glitter'd on her tears | W |
And deepening thro' the silent spheres | X |
Heaven over Heaven rose the night | O |
And weeping then she made her moan | E |
The night comes on that knows not morn | F |
When I shall cease to be all alone | E |
To live forgotten and love forlorn | F |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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