Mariline Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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At the wheel plied MarilineA
Beauteous and self sereneA
Never dreaming of that mienA
Fit for lady or for queenA
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Never sang she but her wordsB
Music laden swept the chordsC
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Of the heart that eagerlyD
Stored the subtle melodyD
Like the honey in the beeD
Never spake but showed that sheD
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Held the golden master keyD
That unlocked all sympathyD
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Pent in souls where Feeling glowsE
Like the perfume in the roseE
Like her own innate reposeE
Like the whiteness in the snowsE
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Richly thoughted MarilineA
Nature's heiress nature's queenA
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IIF
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By her side with liberal lookG
Paused a student o'er a bookG
Wielder of a shepherd's crookG
Reveller by grove and brookG
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Hunter up of musty tomesH
Worshipper of deathless poemsI
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Lover of the true and goodJ
Hater of sin's evil broodK
Votary of solitudeK
Man of mind like amplitudeK
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With exalted eye sereneA
Gazed he on fair MarilineA
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Swifter whirled the busy wheelL
Piled the thread upon the reelL
Saw she not his spirit kneelL
Praying for her after wealL
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Like the wife of CollatineA
Busily spun MarilineA
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IIIF
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Hour by hour and day by dayM
Sang the maid her roundelayL
Hour by hour and day by dayM
Spun her threads of white and grayM
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While the shepherd student heldN
Commune with the great of eldN
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Pondered on their wondrous wordsB
While he watched his scattered herdsB
While he stemmed the surging fordsC
And he knew the lore of birdsB
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Learned the secrets of the rillsB
Conversed with the answering hillsB
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Like her threads of white and grayM
Passed their mingled Eves awayM
One unceasing roundelayL
Winter came it still was MayM
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IVO
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When the spring smiled opening upP
Pink lipped flower and acorn cupP
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When the summer waked the roseB
In the scented briar boughsB
When the earth with painless throesB
Bore her golden autumn rowsB
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Field on field of grain that pressedN
Childlike to her fruitful breastN
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When hale winter wrapped his formQ
In the mantle of the stormQ
Tamed the bird and chilled the wormR
Stopped the pulse that thrilled the germR
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As the seasons went and cameS
One in heart and hope and aimS
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Cheered they each the other onA
Where was labor to be doneA
At day break or set of sunA
Like two thoughts that merge in oneA
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Dignified and soul sereneA
Busily spun MarilineA
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VO
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Brightly broke the summer mornA
Like a lark from out the cornA
Broke like joy just newly bornA
From the depths of woe forlornA
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Broke with grateful songs of birdsB
Lowings of well pastured herdsB
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Hailed by childhood's happy looksB
Cheered by anthems of the brooksB
Chants beyond the lore of booksB
Cawing crows instead of rooksB
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Glowed the heavens rose the sunA
Mariline was up for oneA
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VIO
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Like a chatterer tongue tiedN
Lo the wheel is placed asideN
Not from indolence or prideN
Mariline must be a BrideN
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Fairest maid of maids terreneA
Bride of Brides dear MarilineA
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VIIO
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Up the meditative airT
Passed the smoke wreaths white and fairT
Like the spirit of the prayerT
Mariline now offered thereT
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Passed behind the cottage eavesB
Curling through the maple leavesB
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Through the pines and old elm treesB
Belies of past centuriesB
Hardy oaks that never breezeB
Humbled to their gnarly kneesB
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Forest lords beneath whose sheenA
Flowers bloomed for MarilineA
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Round the cottage fresh and greenA
Climbed the vine the scarlet beanA
Morning glories peeped betweenA
Looking out for MarilineA
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Odours never felt beforeU
Tranced the locust at the doorU
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Vieing with the mignonetteN
Bound the garden parapetN
Whose rare fragrances were metN
By rich perfumes rarer yetN
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Stealing from the garden walksB
Sentineled with hollyhocksB
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VIIIO
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What a heaven the cottage seemedN
Love's own temple where Faith dreamedN
Of the coming years that beamedN
On them as pale stars have gleamedN
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Through unnavigated seasB
To which the prophetic breezeB
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Whispered of a future dayN
When swift fleets would urge their wayN
Through the waters cold and grayN
Like the dolphins at their playN
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There the future Bride and heO
Prince of love's knight errantryN
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Whose good shepherd arms must holdN
This pet yeanling of the foldN
Gift of God so long foretoldN
Gift beyond the price of goldN
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There the parents aged and haleL
Passing down life's autumn valeL
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With a joy as rare and trueN
As their daughter's eye of blueN
With such hopes as reach up toN
Heaven's gate when passing throughN
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Peris bound for higher skiesB
Win the Celestial ParadiseB
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IXB
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Thoughtfully stood MarilineA
Whitely veiled and soul sereneA
Love's fair world for her demesneA
Never looked she more a queenA
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With her maidens by her sideN
Smiling on the coming brideN
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Her pet lamb with comic mirthV
Licked her hand and scampered forthW
The fine sheep dog on the hearthX
Kindly eyed her for her worthV
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XB
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Up the air across the moorN
As they left the cottage doorN
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Chimed the merry village hellsB
Music wrapt the neighbouring fellsB
Stirred the heart's awakened cellsB
Like fine strains from fairy dellsB
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Past the orchard down the laneA
By fresh wavy fields of grainA
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By the brook that told its loveO
To the pasture glen and groveO
Sacred haunts that well could proveO
Vows enregistered aboveO
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By the restless mill where stoodN
Bowing in his amplest moodN
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The old miller hat in handN
Rich in goodness rich in landN
On whose features grave and blandN
Glowed a blessing for the bandN
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Through the village where behindN
Many a half uplifted blindN
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Eyes that might have lit the skiesB
Of Mahomet's ParadiseB
Flashed behind the curtains' dyesB
With a cheerful half surpriseB
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Through the village underneathY
Many a blooming flower wreathY
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Garlanding the arches greenA
Beared in honour of the queenA
Of this day of days sereneA
Day of days to MarilineA
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To the church whose cheering bellsB
Told the tale in music swellsB
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Told it to the country wideN
With an earnest kind of prideN
Something not to be deniedN
Mariline must be a BrideN
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XIB
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Up the aisle with solemn paceB
Meeting God there face to faceB
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Never Bride more chaste or fairN
Stood before His altar thereN
Her ripe heart aflame with prayerN
Blessing Him for all His careN
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Every earthly promise givenA
Registered with joy in heavenA
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From the galleries looked downA
Village belle and country clownA
Men with honest labour brownA
Far removed from mart or townA
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Smiling with a zealous prideN
On the shepherd and his brideN
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Playmates of their early daysB
For their walks in wisdom's waysB
Ever crowned with honoured baysB
Of esteem and ardent praiseB
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XIIB
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Well done servant of the LordN
Grave expounder of His WordN
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Who in distant GalileeB
Graced the marriage feast that HeB
With all due solemnityB
Might commission such as theeB
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To do likewise and uniteN
Souls like these in marriage plightN
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With what manly gentle prideN
The glad Shepherd clasps his BrideN
Love like theirs so true and triedN
Ever true love must abideN
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XIIIB
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Ye whose souls are strong and firmR
In whom love's electric germR
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Has been fanned into a flameS
At the mention of a nameS
Ye whose souls are still the sameS
As when first the Victor cameS
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Stinging every nerve to lifeO
In the beatific strifeO
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Till the man's divinest partN
Ruled triumphant in the heartN
And with shrinking sudden startN
The bleak old world stood apartN
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Periling the wild IdealL
By the presence of the RealL
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Ye and ye alone can knowA
How these twain souls burn and glowA
Can interpret every throeN
Of the full heart's overflowA
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That imparts that light sereneA
To the brow of MarilineA

Charles Sangster



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