Mariana Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDDCEFEG HIJIKLLKEIE IEIECMMCEIE BIBINOOEEIE EEEEEPPEEIE QIQIIRRIEI SISIEEEEEIEWith blackest moss the flower plots | A |
Were thickly crusted one and all | B |
The rusted nails fell from the knots | A |
That held the pear to the gable wall | B |
The broken sheds look'd sad and strange | C |
Unlifted was the clinking latch | D |
Weeded and worn the ancient thatch | D |
Upon the lonely moated grange | C |
She only said 'My life is dreary | E |
He cometh not ' she said | F |
She said 'I am aweary aweary | E |
I would that I were dead ' | G |
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Her tears fell with the dews at even | H |
Her tears fell ere the dews were dried | I |
She could not look on the sweet heaven | J |
Either at morn or eventide | I |
After the flitting of the bats | K |
When thickest dark did trance the sky | L |
She drew her casement curtain by | L |
And glanced athwart the glooming flats | K |
She only said 'The night is dreary | E |
He cometh not ' she said | I |
She said 'I am aweary aweary | E |
I would that I were dead ' | - |
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Upon the middle of the night | I |
Waking she heard the night fowl crow | E |
The cock sung out an hour ere light | I |
From the dark fen the oxen's low | E |
Came to her without hope of change | C |
In sleep she seem'd to walk forlorn | M |
Till cold winds woke the gray eyed morn | M |
About the lonely moated grange | C |
She only said 'The day is dreary | E |
He cometh not ' she said | I |
She said 'I am aweary aweary | E |
I would that I were dead ' | - |
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About a stone cast from the wall | B |
A sluice with blacken'd waters slept | I |
And o'er it many round and small | B |
The cluster'd marish mosses crept | I |
Hard by a poplar shook alway | N |
All silver green with gnarl egrave d bark | O |
For leagues no other tree did mark | O |
The level waste the rounding gray | E |
She only said 'My life is dreary | E |
He cometh not ' she said | I |
She said 'I am aweary aweary | E |
I would that I were dead ' | - |
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And ever when the moon was low | E |
And the shrill winds were up and away | E |
In the white curtain to and fro | E |
She saw the gusty shadow sway | E |
But when the moon was very low | E |
And wild winds bound within their cell | P |
The shadow of the poplar fell | P |
Upon her bed across her brow | E |
She only said 'The night is dreary | E |
He cometh not ' she said | I |
She said 'I am aweary aweary | E |
I would that I were dead ' | - |
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All day within the dreamy house | Q |
The doors upon their hinges creak'd | I |
The blue fly sung in the pane the mouse | Q |
Behind the mouldering wainscot shriek'd | I |
Or from the crevice peer'd about | I |
Old faces glimmer'd thro' the doors | R |
Old footsteps trod the upper floors | R |
Old voices call'd her from without | I |
She only said 'My life is dreary | E |
He cometh not ' she said | I |
She said 'I am aweary aweary ' | - |
I would that I were dead ' | - |
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The sparrow's chirrup on the roof | S |
The slow clock ticking and the sound | I |
Which to the wooing wind aloof | S |
The poplar made did all confound | I |
Her sense but most she loathed the hour | E |
When the thick moted sunbeam lay | E |
Athwart the chambers and the day | E |
Was sloping toward his western bower | E |
Then said she 'I am very dreary | E |
He will not come ' she said | I |
She wept 'I am aweary aweary | E |
O God that I were dead ' | - |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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