Mariana In The South Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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With one black shadow at its feetA
The house thro' all the level shinesB
Close latticed to the brooding heatA
And silent in its dusty vinesB
A faint blue ridge upon the rightC
An empty river bed beforeD
And shallows on a distant shoreD
In glaring sand and inlets brightC
But Aye Mary made she moanE
And Aye Mary night and mornF
And Ah she sang to be all aloneE
To live forgotten and love forlornF
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She as her carol sadder grewG
From brow and bosom slowly downH
Thro' rosy taper fingers drewG
Her streaming curls of deepest brownH
To left and right and made appearI
Still lighted in a secret shrineJ
Her melancholy eyes divineJ
The home of woe without a tearK
And Aye Mary was her moanE
Madonna sad is night and mornF
And Ah she sang to be all aloneE
To live forgotten and love forlornF
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Till all the crimson changed and pastL
Into deep orange o'er the seaM
Low on her knees herself she castL
Before Our Lady murmur'd sheM
Complaining Mother give me graceN
To help me of my weary loadO
And on the liquid mirror glow'dO
The clear perfection of her faceN
Is this the form she made her moanE
That won his praises night and mornF
And Ah she said but I wake aloneE
I sleep forgotten I wake forlornF
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Nor bird would sing nor lamb would bleatO
Nor any cloud would cross the vaultO
But day increased from heat to heatO
On stony drought and steaming saltO
Till now at noon she slept againP
And seem'd knee deep in mountain grassQ
And heard her native breezes passQ
And runlets babbling down the glenP
She breathed in sleep a lower moanE
And murmuring as at night and mornF
She thought My spirit is here aloneE
Walks forgotten and is forlornF
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Dreaming she knew it was a dreamR
She felt he was and was not thereK
She woke the babble of the streamR
Fell and without the steady glareK
Shrank one sick willow sere and smallS
The river bed was dusty whiteO
And all the furnace of the lightO
Struck up against the blinding wallS
She whisper'd with a stifled moanE
More inward than at night or mornF
Sweet Mother let me not here aloneE
Live forgotten and die forlornF
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And rising from her bosom drewG
Old letters breathing of her worthT
For Love they said must needs be trueG
To what is loveliest upon earthT
An image seem'd to pass the doorD
To look at her with slight and sayU
But now thy beauty flows awayU
So be alone for evermoreD
O cruel heart she changed her toneE
And cruel love whose end is scornF
Is this the end to be left aloneE
To live forgotten and die forlornF
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But sometimes in the falling dayU
An image seem'd to pass the doorD
To look into her eyes and sayU
But thou shalt be alone no moreD
And flaming downward over allS
From heat to heat the day decreasedO
And slowly rounded to the eastO
The one black shadow from the wallS
The day to night she made her moanE
The day to night the night to mornF
And day and night I am left aloneE
To live forgotten and love forlornF
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At eve a dry cicala sungV
There came a sound as of the seaM
Backward the lattice blind she flungV
And lean'd upon the balconyM
There all in spaces rosy brightO
Large Hesper glitter'd on her tearsW
And deepening thro' the silent spheresX
Heaven over Heaven rose the nightO
And weeping then she made her moanE
The night comes on that knows not mornF
When I shall cease to be all aloneE
To live forgotten and love forlornF

Alfred Lord Tennyson



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