The Marring Of Malyn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B BB CC DD EE AA FF GG HH CC II BB A J KKLLMMNNOO BBPQRRSSFFAATTUUCCBB VVSSWWSBSSXXSSBBVVBB KKNNBBVVNNTTVVYYSSFF BB ZA2VVB2B2MMOONN VVBBVV A C2 VVSSBBD2D2JJVVFFVVE2 E2SSBBVVF2F2G2G2BBHH JJNNBBBBD2D2OOD2H2SS UUI2I2FFEEYJ2K2K2VVB BBBD2D2I | A |
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The Merrymakers | B |
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Among the wintry mountains beside the Northern sea | B |
There is a merrymaking as old as old can be | B |
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Over the river reaches over the wastes of snow | C |
Halting at every doorway the white drifts come and go | C |
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They scour upon the open and mass along the wood | D |
The burliest invaders that ever man withstood | D |
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With swoop and whirl and scurry these riders of the drift | E |
Will mount and wheel and column and pass into the lift | E |
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All night upon the marshes you hear their tread go by | A |
And all night long the streamers are dancing on the sky | A |
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Their light in Malyn's chamber is pale upon the floor | F |
And Malyn of the mountains is theirs for evermore | F |
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She fancies them a people in saffron and in green | G |
Dancing for her For Malyn is only seventeen | G |
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Out there beyond her window from frosty deep to deep | H |
Her heart is dancing with them until she falls asleep | H |
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Then all night long through heaven with stately to and fro | C |
To music of no measure the gorgeous dancers go | C |
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The stars are great and splendid beryl and gold and blue | I |
And there are dreams for Malyn that never will come true | I |
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Yet for one golden Yule tide their royal guest is she | B |
Among the wintry mountains beside the Northern sea | B |
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II | A |
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A Sailor's Wedding | J |
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There is a Norland laddie who sails the round sea rim | K |
And Malyn of the mountains is all the world to him | K |
The Master of the Snowflake bound upward from the line | L |
He smothers her with canvas along the crumbling brine | L |
He crowds her till she buries and shudders from his hand | M |
For in the angry sunset the watch has sighted land | M |
And he will brook no gainsay who goes to meet his bride | N |
But their will is the wind's will who traffic on the tide | N |
Make home my bonny schooner The sun goes down to light | O |
The gusty crimson wind halls against the wedding night | O |
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She gathers up the distance and grows and veers and swings | B |
Like any homing swallow with nightfall in her wings | B |
The wind's white sources glimmer with shining gusts of rain | P |
And in the Ardise country the spring comes back again | Q |
It is the brooding April haunted and sad and dear | R |
When vanished things return not with the returning year | R |
Only when evening purples the light in Malyn's dale | S |
With sound of brooks and robins by many a hidden trail | S |
With stir of lulling rivers along the forest floor | F |
The dream folk of the gloaming come back to Malyn's door | F |
The dusk is long and gracious and far up in the sky | A |
You hear the chimney swallows twitter and scurry by | A |
The hyacinths are lonesome and white in Malyn's room | T |
And out at sea the Snowflake is driving through the gloom | T |
The whitecaps froth and freshen in squadrons of white surge | U |
They thunder on to ruin and smoke along the verge | U |
The lift is black above them the sea is mirk below | C |
And down the world's wide border they perish as they go | C |
They comb and seethe and founder they mount and glimmer and flee | B |
Amid the awful sobbing and quailing of the sea | B |
They sheet the flying schooner in foam from stem to stern | V |
Till every yard of canvas is drenched from clew to ear'n' | V |
And where they move uneasy chill is the light and pale | S |
They are the Skipper's daughters who dance before the gale | S |
They revel with the Snowflake and down the close of day | W |
Among the boisterous dancers she holds her dancing way | W |
And then the dark has kindled the harbor light alee | S |
With stars and wind and sea room upon the gurly sea | B |
The storm gets up to windward to heave and clang and brawl | S |
The dancers of the open begin to moan and call | S |
A lure is in their dancing a weird is in their song | X |
The snow white Skipper's daughters are stronger than the strong | X |
They love the Norland sailor who dares the rough sea play | S |
Their arms are white and splendid to beckon him away | S |
They promise him for kisses a moment at their lips | B |
To make before the morning the port of missing ships | B |
Where men put in for shelter and dreams put forth again | V |
And the great sea winds follow the journey of the rain | V |
A bridal with no morrow no welling of old tears | B |
For him and no more tidings of the departed years | B |
For there of old were fashioned the chambers cool and dim | K |
In the eternal silence below the twilight's rim | K |
The borders of that country are slumberous and wide | N |
And they are well who marry the fondlers of the tide | N |
Within their arms immortal no mortal fear can be | B |
But Malyn of the mountains is fairer than the sea | B |
And so the scudding Snowflake flies with the wind astern | V |
And through the boding twilight are blown the shrilling tern | V |
The light is on the headland the harbor gate is wide | N |
But rolling in with ruin the fog is on the tide | N |
Fate like a muffled steersman sails with that Norland gloom | T |
The Snowflake in the offing is neck and neck with doom | T |
Ha ha my saucy cruiser crowd up your helm and run | V |
There'll be a merrymaking to morrow in the sun | V |
A cloud of straining canvas a roar of breaking foam | Y |
The Snowflake and the sea drift are racing in for home | Y |
Her heart is dancing shoreward but silently and pale | S |
The swift relentless phantom is hungering on her trail | S |
They scour and fly together until across the roar | F |
He signals for a pilot and Death puts out from shore | F |
A moment Malyn's window is gleaming in the lee | B |
And then the ghost of wreckage upon the iron sea | B |
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Ah Malyn lay your forehead upon your folded arm | Z |
And hear the grim marauder shake out the reefs of storm | A2 |
Loud laughs the surly Skipper to feel the fog drive in | V |
Because a blue eyed sailor shall wed his kith and kin | V |
And the red dawn discover a rover spent for breath | B2 |
Among the merrymakers who fondle him to death | B2 |
And all the snowy sisters are dancing wild and grand | M |
For him whose broken beauty shall slacken to their hand | M |
They wanton in their triumph and skirl at Malyn's plight | O |
Lift up their hands in chorus and thunder to the night | O |
The gulls are driven inland but on the dancing tide | N |
The master of the Snowflake is taken to his bride | N |
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And there when daybreak yellows along the far sea plain | V |
The fresh and buoyant morning comes down the wind again | V |
The world is glad of April the gulls are wild with glee | B |
And Malyn on the headland alone looks out to sea | B |
Once more that gray Shipmaster smiles for the night is done | V |
And all his snow white daughters are dancing in the sun | V |
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III | A |
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The Light On The Marsh | C2 |
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The year grows on to harvest the tawny lilies burn | V |
Along the marsh and hillward the roads are sweet with fern | V |
All day the windless heaven pavilions the sea blue | S |
Then twilight comes and drenches the sultry dells with dew | S |
The lone white star of evening comes out among the hills | B |
And in the darkling forest begin the whip poor wills | B |
The fireflies that wander the hawks that flit and scream | D2 |
And all the wilding vagrants of summer dusk and dream | D2 |
Have all their will and reck not of any after thing | J |
Inheriting no sorrow and no foreshadowing | J |
The wind forgets to whisper the pines forget to moan | V |
And Malyn of the mountains is there among her own | V |
Malyn whom grief nor wonder can trouble nevermore | F |
Since that spring night the Snowflake was wrecked beside her door | F |
And strange her cry went seaward once and her soul thereon | V |
With the vast lonely sea winds a wanderer was gone | V |
But she that patient beauty which is her body fair | E2 |
Endures on earth still lovely untenanted of care | E2 |
The folk down at the harbor pity from day to day | S |
With a God save you Malyn they bid her on her way | S |
She smiles poor feckless Malyn the knowing smile of those | B |
Whom the too sudden vision God sometimes may disclose | B |
Of his wild lurid world wreck has blinded with its sheen | V |
Then with a fond insistence pathetic and serene | V |
They pass among their fellows for lost minds none can save | F2 |
Bent on their single business and marvel why men rave | F2 |
Now far away a sighing comes from the buried reef | G2 |
As though the sea were mourning above an ancient grief | G2 |
For once the restless Mother of all the weary lands | B |
Went down to him in beauty with trouble in her hands | B |
And gave to him forever all memory to keep | H |
But to her wayward children oblivion and sleep | H |
That no immortal burden might plague one living thing | J |
But death should sweetly visit us vagabonds of spring | J |
And so his heart forever goes inland with the tide | N |
Searching with many voices among the marshes wide | N |
Under the quiet starlight up through the stirring reeds | B |
With whispering and lamenting it rises and recedes | B |
All night the lapsing rivers croon to their shingly bars | B |
The wizardries that mingle the sea wind and the stars | B |
And all night long wherever the moving waters gleam | D2 |
The little hills hearken hearken the great hills hear and dream | D2 |
And Malyn keeps the marshes all the sweet summer night | O |
Alone foot free to follow a wandering wisp light | O |
For every day at sundown at the first beacon's gleam | D2 |
She calls the gulls her brothers and keeps a tryst with them | H2 |
O gulls white gulls what see you beyond the sloping blue | S |
And where away's the Snowflake she's so long overdue | S |
Then as the gloaming settles the hilltop stars emerge | U |
And watch that plaintive figure patrol the dark sea verge | U |
She follows the marsh fire her heart laughs and is glad | I2 |
She knows that light to seaward is her own sailor lad | I2 |
What are these tales they tell her of wreckage on the shore | F |
Delay but makes his coming the nearer than before | F |
Surely her eyes have sighted his schooner in the lift | E |
But the great tide he homes on sets with an outward drift | E |
So will o' the wisp deludes her till dawn and she turns home | Y |
In unperturbed assurance To morrow he will come | J2 |
This is the tale of Malyn whom sudden grief so marred | K2 |
And still each lovely summer resumes that sweet regard | K2 |
The old unvexed eternal indifference to pain | V |
The sea sings in the marshes and June comes back again | V |
All night the lapsing rivers lisp in the long dike grass | B |
And many memories whisper the sea winds as they pass | B |
The tides disturb the silence but not a hindrance bars | B |
The wash of time where founder even the galleon stars | B |
And all night long wherever the moving waters gleam | D2 |
The little hills hearken hearken the great hills hear and dream | D2 |
Bliss Carman (william)
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