Mariana Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDDCEFEG HIJIKLLKEIE IEIECMMCEIE BIBINOOEEIE EEEEEPPEEIE QIQIIRRIEI SISIEEEEEIE

With blackest moss the flower plotsA
Were thickly crusted one and allB
The rusted nails fell from the knotsA
That held the pear to the gable wallB
The broken sheds look'd sad and strangeC
Unlifted was the clinking latchD
Weeded and worn the ancient thatchD
Upon the lonely moated grangeC
She only said 'My life is drearyE
He cometh not ' she saidF
She said 'I am aweary awearyE
I would that I were dead 'G
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Her tears fell with the dews at evenH
Her tears fell ere the dews were driedI
She could not look on the sweet heavenJ
Either at morn or eventideI
After the flitting of the batsK
When thickest dark did trance the skyL
She drew her casement curtain byL
And glanced athwart the glooming flatsK
She only said 'The night is drearyE
He cometh not ' she saidI
She said 'I am aweary awearyE
I would that I were dead '-
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Upon the middle of the nightI
Waking she heard the night fowl crowE
The cock sung out an hour ere lightI
From the dark fen the oxen's lowE
Came to her without hope of changeC
In sleep she seem'd to walk forlornM
Till cold winds woke the gray eyed mornM
About the lonely moated grangeC
She only said 'The day is drearyE
He cometh not ' she saidI
She said 'I am aweary awearyE
I would that I were dead '-
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About a stone cast from the wallB
A sluice with blacken'd waters sleptI
And o'er it many round and smallB
The cluster'd marish mosses creptI
Hard by a poplar shook alwayN
All silver green with gnarl egrave d barkO
For leagues no other tree did markO
The level waste the rounding grayE
She only said 'My life is drearyE
He cometh not ' she saidI
She said 'I am aweary awearyE
I would that I were dead '-
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And ever when the moon was lowE
And the shrill winds were up and awayE
In the white curtain to and froE
She saw the gusty shadow swayE
But when the moon was very lowE
And wild winds bound within their cellP
The shadow of the poplar fellP
Upon her bed across her browE
She only said 'The night is drearyE
He cometh not ' she saidI
She said 'I am aweary awearyE
I would that I were dead '-
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All day within the dreamy houseQ
The doors upon their hinges creak'dI
The blue fly sung in the pane the mouseQ
Behind the mouldering wainscot shriek'dI
Or from the crevice peer'd aboutI
Old faces glimmer'd thro' the doorsR
Old footsteps trod the upper floorsR
Old voices call'd her from withoutI
She only said 'My life is drearyE
He cometh not ' she saidI
She said 'I am aweary aweary '-
I would that I were dead '-
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The sparrow's chirrup on the roofS
The slow clock ticking and the soundI
Which to the wooing wind aloofS
The poplar made did all confoundI
Her sense but most she loathed the hourE
When the thick moted sunbeam layE
Athwart the chambers and the dayE
Was sloping toward his western bowerE
Then said she 'I am very drearyE
He will not come ' she saidI
She wept 'I am aweary awearyE
O God that I were dead '-

Alfred Lord Tennyson



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