The Marring Of Malyn: I: The Merrymakers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC DD EE FF GG HH BB II AA| Among the wintry mountains beside the Northern sea | A |
| There is a merrymaking as old as old can be | A |
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| Over the river reaches over the wastes of snow | B |
| Halting at every doorway the white drifts come and go | B |
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| They scour upon the open and mass along the wood | C |
| The burliest invaders that ever man withstood | C |
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| With swoop and whirl and scurry these riders of the drift | D |
| Will mount and wheel and column and pass into the lift | D |
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| All night upon the marshes you hear their tread go by | E |
| And all night long the streamers are dancing on the sky | E |
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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 | B |
| To music of no measure the gorgeous dancers go | B |
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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 | A |
| Among the wintry mountains beside the Northern sea | A |
Bliss Carman
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