Mariline Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA BC DDDD DD EEEE AA F GGGG HI JKKK AA LLLL AA F MLMM NN BBCB BB MMLM O PP BBBB NN QQRR SS AAAA AA O AAAA BB BBBB AA O NNNN AA O TTTT BB BBBB AA AAAA UU NNNN BB O NNNN BB NNNN ON NNNN LL NNNN BB B AAAA NN VWXV B NN BBBB AA OOOO NN NNNN NN BBBB YY AAAA BB NNNN B BB NNNN AA AAAA NN BBBB B NN BBBB NN NNNN B RR SSSS OO NNNN LL AANA AAAt the wheel plied Mariline | A |
Beauteous and self serene | A |
Never dreaming of that mien | A |
Fit for lady or for queen | A |
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Never sang she but her words | B |
Music laden swept the chords | C |
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Of the heart that eagerly | D |
Stored the subtle melody | D |
Like the honey in the bee | D |
Never spake but showed that she | D |
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Held the golden master key | D |
That unlocked all sympathy | D |
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Pent in souls where Feeling glows | E |
Like the perfume in the rose | E |
Like her own innate repose | E |
Like the whiteness in the snows | E |
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Richly thoughted Mariline | A |
Nature's heiress nature's queen | A |
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II | F |
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By her side with liberal look | G |
Paused a student o'er a book | G |
Wielder of a shepherd's crook | G |
Reveller by grove and brook | G |
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Hunter up of musty tomes | H |
Worshipper of deathless poems | I |
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Lover of the true and good | J |
Hater of sin's evil brood | K |
Votary of solitude | K |
Man of mind like amplitude | K |
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With exalted eye serene | A |
Gazed he on fair Mariline | A |
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Swifter whirled the busy wheel | L |
Piled the thread upon the reel | L |
Saw she not his spirit kneel | L |
Praying for her after weal | L |
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Like the wife of Collatine | A |
Busily spun Mariline | A |
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III | F |
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Hour by hour and day by day | M |
Sang the maid her roundelay | L |
Hour by hour and day by day | M |
Spun her threads of white and gray | M |
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While the shepherd student held | N |
Commune with the great of eld | N |
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Pondered on their wondrous words | B |
While he watched his scattered herds | B |
While he stemmed the surging fords | C |
And he knew the lore of birds | B |
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Learned the secrets of the rills | B |
Conversed with the answering hills | B |
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Like her threads of white and gray | M |
Passed their mingled Eves away | M |
One unceasing roundelay | L |
Winter came it still was May | M |
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IV | O |
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When the spring smiled opening up | P |
Pink lipped flower and acorn cup | P |
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When the summer waked the rose | B |
In the scented briar boughs | B |
When the earth with painless throes | B |
Bore her golden autumn rows | B |
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Field on field of grain that pressed | N |
Childlike to her fruitful breast | N |
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When hale winter wrapped his form | Q |
In the mantle of the storm | Q |
Tamed the bird and chilled the worm | R |
Stopped the pulse that thrilled the germ | R |
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As the seasons went and came | S |
One in heart and hope and aim | S |
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Cheered they each the other on | A |
Where was labor to be done | A |
At day break or set of sun | A |
Like two thoughts that merge in one | A |
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Dignified and soul serene | A |
Busily spun Mariline | A |
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V | O |
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Brightly broke the summer morn | A |
Like a lark from out the corn | A |
Broke like joy just newly born | A |
From the depths of woe forlorn | A |
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Broke with grateful songs of birds | B |
Lowings of well pastured herds | B |
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Hailed by childhood's happy looks | B |
Cheered by anthems of the brooks | B |
Chants beyond the lore of books | B |
Cawing crows instead of rooks | B |
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Glowed the heavens rose the sun | A |
Mariline was up for one | A |
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VI | O |
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Like a chatterer tongue tied | N |
Lo the wheel is placed aside | N |
Not from indolence or pride | N |
Mariline must be a Bride | N |
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Fairest maid of maids terrene | A |
Bride of Brides dear Mariline | A |
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VII | O |
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Up the meditative air | T |
Passed the smoke wreaths white and fair | T |
Like the spirit of the prayer | T |
Mariline now offered there | T |
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Passed behind the cottage eaves | B |
Curling through the maple leaves | B |
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Through the pines and old elm trees | B |
Belies of past centuries | B |
Hardy oaks that never breeze | B |
Humbled to their gnarly knees | B |
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Forest lords beneath whose sheen | A |
Flowers bloomed for Mariline | A |
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Round the cottage fresh and green | A |
Climbed the vine the scarlet bean | A |
Morning glories peeped between | A |
Looking out for Mariline | A |
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Odours never felt before | U |
Tranced the locust at the door | U |
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Vieing with the mignonette | N |
Bound the garden parapet | N |
Whose rare fragrances were met | N |
By rich perfumes rarer yet | N |
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Stealing from the garden walks | B |
Sentineled with hollyhocks | B |
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VIII | O |
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What a heaven the cottage seemed | N |
Love's own temple where Faith dreamed | N |
Of the coming years that beamed | N |
On them as pale stars have gleamed | N |
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Through unnavigated seas | B |
To which the prophetic breeze | B |
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Whispered of a future day | N |
When swift fleets would urge their way | N |
Through the waters cold and gray | N |
Like the dolphins at their play | N |
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There the future Bride and he | O |
Prince of love's knight errantry | N |
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Whose good shepherd arms must hold | N |
This pet yeanling of the fold | N |
Gift of God so long foretold | N |
Gift beyond the price of gold | N |
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There the parents aged and hale | L |
Passing down life's autumn vale | L |
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With a joy as rare and true | N |
As their daughter's eye of blue | N |
With such hopes as reach up to | N |
Heaven's gate when passing through | N |
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Peris bound for higher skies | B |
Win the Celestial Paradise | B |
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IX | B |
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Thoughtfully stood Mariline | A |
Whitely veiled and soul serene | A |
Love's fair world for her demesne | A |
Never looked she more a queen | A |
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With her maidens by her side | N |
Smiling on the coming bride | N |
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Her pet lamb with comic mirth | V |
Licked her hand and scampered forth | W |
The fine sheep dog on the hearth | X |
Kindly eyed her for her worth | V |
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X | B |
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Up the air across the moor | N |
As they left the cottage door | N |
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Chimed the merry village hells | B |
Music wrapt the neighbouring fells | B |
Stirred the heart's awakened cells | B |
Like fine strains from fairy dells | B |
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Past the orchard down the lane | A |
By fresh wavy fields of grain | A |
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By the brook that told its love | O |
To the pasture glen and grove | O |
Sacred haunts that well could prove | O |
Vows enregistered above | O |
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By the restless mill where stood | N |
Bowing in his amplest mood | N |
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The old miller hat in hand | N |
Rich in goodness rich in land | N |
On whose features grave and bland | N |
Glowed a blessing for the band | N |
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Through the village where behind | N |
Many a half uplifted blind | N |
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Eyes that might have lit the skies | B |
Of Mahomet's Paradise | B |
Flashed behind the curtains' dyes | B |
With a cheerful half surprise | B |
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Through the village underneath | Y |
Many a blooming flower wreath | Y |
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Garlanding the arches green | A |
Beared in honour of the queen | A |
Of this day of days serene | A |
Day of days to Mariline | A |
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To the church whose cheering bells | B |
Told the tale in music swells | B |
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Told it to the country wide | N |
With an earnest kind of pride | N |
Something not to be denied | N |
Mariline must be a Bride | N |
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XI | B |
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Up the aisle with solemn pace | B |
Meeting God there face to face | B |
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Never Bride more chaste or fair | N |
Stood before His altar there | N |
Her ripe heart aflame with prayer | N |
Blessing Him for all His care | N |
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Every earthly promise given | A |
Registered with joy in heaven | A |
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From the galleries looked down | A |
Village belle and country clown | A |
Men with honest labour brown | A |
Far removed from mart or town | A |
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Smiling with a zealous pride | N |
On the shepherd and his bride | N |
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Playmates of their early days | B |
For their walks in wisdom's ways | B |
Ever crowned with honoured bays | B |
Of esteem and ardent praise | B |
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XII | B |
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Well done servant of the Lord | N |
Grave expounder of His Word | N |
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Who in distant Galilee | B |
Graced the marriage feast that He | B |
With all due solemnity | B |
Might commission such as thee | B |
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To do likewise and unite | N |
Souls like these in marriage plight | N |
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With what manly gentle pride | N |
The glad Shepherd clasps his Bride | N |
Love like theirs so true and tried | N |
Ever true love must abide | N |
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XIII | B |
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Ye whose souls are strong and firm | R |
In whom love's electric germ | R |
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Has been fanned into a flame | S |
At the mention of a name | S |
Ye whose souls are still the same | S |
As when first the Victor came | S |
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Stinging every nerve to life | O |
In the beatific strife | O |
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Till the man's divinest part | N |
Ruled triumphant in the heart | N |
And with shrinking sudden start | N |
The bleak old world stood apart | N |
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Periling the wild Ideal | L |
By the presence of the Real | L |
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Ye and ye alone can know | A |
How these twain souls burn and glow | A |
Can interpret every throe | N |
Of the full heart's overflow | A |
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That imparts that light serene | A |
To the brow of Mariline | A |
Charles Sangster
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