Malcolm's Katie: A Love Story - Part Iii. Poem Rhyme Scheme

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The great farm house of Malcolm Graem stood	A
Square shoulder'd and peak roof'd upon a hill	B
With many windows looking everywhere	C
So that no distant meadow might lie hid	D
Nor corn field hide its gold nor lowing herd	E
Browse in far pastures out of Malcolm's ken	F
He lov'd to sit grim grey and somewhat stern	G
And thro' the smoke clouds from his short clay pipe	H
Look out upon his riches while his thoughts	I
Swung back and forth between the bleak stern past	J
And the near future for his life had come	K
To that close balance when a pendulum	K
The memory swings between me 'Then' and 'Now'	G
His seldom speech ran thus two diff'rent ways	L
'When I was but a laddie this I did'	J
Or 'Katie in the Fall I'll see to build	J
'Such fences or such sheds about the place	M
'And next year please the Lord another barn '	N
Katie's gay garden foam'd about the walls	O
'Leagur'd the prim cut modern sills and rush'd	J
Up the stone walls and broke on the peak'd roof	P
And Katie's lawn was like a Poet's sward	J
Velvet and sheer and di'monded with dew	J
For such as win their wealth most aptly take	Q
Smooth urban ways and blend them with their own	G
And Katie's dainty raiment was as fine	G
As the smooth silken petals of the rose	R
And her light feet her nimble mind and voice	S
In city schools had learn'd the city's ways	L
And grafts upon the healthy lonely vine	G
They shone eternal blossoms 'mid the fruit	J
For Katie had her sceptre in her hand	J
And wielded it right queenly there and here	T
In dairy store room kitchen ev'ry spot	J
Where women's ways were needed on the place	M
And Malcolm took her through his mighty fields	U
And taught her lore about the change of crops	V
And how to see a handsome furrow plough'd	J
And how to choose the cattle for the mart	J
And how to know a fair day's work when done	G
And where to plant young orchards for he said	J
'God sent a lassie but I need a son	G
'Bethankit for His mercies all the same '	N
And Katie when he said it thought of Max	W
Who had been gone two winters and two springs	X
And sigh'd and thought 'Would he not be your son '	N
But all in silence for she had too much	Y
Of the firm will of Malcolm in her soul	Z
To think of shaking that deep rooted rock	A2
But hop'd the crystal current of his love	B2
For his one child increasing day by day	J
Might fret with silver lip until it wore	C2
Such channels thro' the rock that some slight stroke	D2
Of circumstance might crumble down the stone	G
The wooer too had come Max prophesied	J
Reputed wealthy with the azure eyes	E2
And Saxon gilded locks the fair clear face	M
And stalwart form that most women love	B2
And with the jewels of some virtues set	J
On his broad brow With fires within his soul	Z
He had the wizard skill to fetter down	G
To that mere pink poetic nameless glow	F2
That need not fright a flake of snow away	J
But if unloos'd could melt an adverse rock	A2
Marrow'd with iron frowning in his way	J
And Malcolm balanc'd him by day and night	J
And with his grey ey'd shrewdness partly saw	G2
He was not one for Kate but let him come	K
And in chance moments thought 'Well let it be	H2
'They make a bonnie pair he knows the ways	L
'Of men and things can hold the gear I give	I2
'And if the lassie wills it let it be '	N
And then upstarting from his midnight sleep	J2
With hair erect and sweat upon his brow	K2
Such as no labor e'er had beaded there	C
Would cry aloud wide staring thro' the dark	L2
'Nay nay she shall not wed him rest in peace '	N
Then fully waking grimly laugh and say	J
'Why did I speak and answer when none spake '	N
But still lie staring wakeful through the shades	M2
List'ning to the silence and beating still	B
The ball of Alfred's merits to and fro	F2
Saying between the silent arguments	N2
'But would the mother like it could she know	F2
'I would there was a way to ring a lad	J
'Like silver coin and so find out the true	J
'But Kate shall say him 'Nay' or say him 'Yea'	O2
'At her own will ' And Katie said him 'Nay '	N
In all the maiden speechless gentle ways	L
A woman has But Alfred only laugh'd	J
To his own soul and said in his wall'd mind	J
'O Kate were I a lover I might feel	P2
'Despair flap o'er my hopes with raven wings	X
'Because thy love is giv'n to other love	B2
'And did I love unless I gain'd thy love	B2
'I would disdain the golden hair sweet lips	Q2
'Air blown form and true violet eyes	E2
'Nor crave the beauteous lamp without the flame	R2
'Which in itself would light a charnel house	S2
'Unlov'd and loving I would find the cure	T2
'Of Love's despair in nursing Love's disdain	G
'Disdain of lesser treasure than the whole	Z
'One cares not much to place against the wheel	P2
'A diamond lacking flame nor loves to pluck	U2
'A rose with all its perfume cast abroad	J
'To the bosom of the gale Not I in truth	V2
'If all man's days are three score years and ten	G
'He needs must waste them not but nimbly seize	W2
'The bright consummate blossom that his will	B
'Calls for most loudly Gone long gone the days	L
'When Love within my soul for ever stretch'd	J
'Fierce hands of flame and here and there I found	J
'A blossom fitted for him all up fill'd	J
'With love as with clear dew they had their hour	X2
'And burn'd to ashes with him as he droop'd	J
'In his own ruby fires No Phoenix he	H2
'To rise again because of Katie's eyes	E2
'On dewy wings from ashes such as his	Y2
'But now another Passion bids me forth	Z2
'To crown him with the fairest I can find	J
'And makes me lover not of Katie's face	M
'But of her father's riches O high fool	A3
'Who feels the faintest pulsing of a wish	B3
'And fails to feed it into lordly life	C3
'So that when stumbling back to Mother Earth	D3
'His freezing lip may curl in cold disdain	G
'Of those poor blighted fools who starward stare	C
'For that fruition nipp'd and scanted here	T
'And while the clay o'ermasters all his blood	J
'And he can feel the dust knit with his flesh	E3
'He yet can say to them 'Be ye content	J
''I tasted perfect fruitage thro' my life	C3
''Lighted all lamps of passion till the oil	F3
''Fail'd from their wicks and now O now I know	F2
''There is no Immortality could give	I2
''Such boon as this to simply cease to be	H2
'' There lies your Heaven O ye dreaming slaves	G3
''If ye would only live to make it so	F2
''Nor paint upon the blue skies lying shades	M2
''Of what is not Wise wise and strong the man	G
''who poisons that fond haunter of the mind	J
''Craving for a hereafter with deep draughts	H3
''Of wild delights so fiery fierce and strong	I3
''That when their dregs are deeply deeply drain'd	J
''What once was blindly crav'd of purblind Chance	J3
''Life life eternal throbbing thro' all space	M
''Is strongly loath'd and with his face in dust	J
''Man loves his only Heav'n six feet of Earth '	N
'So Katie tho' your blue eyes say me 'Nay '	N
'My pangs of love for gold must needs be fed	J
'And shall be Katie if I know my mind '	N
Events were winds close nest'ling in the sails	K3
Of Alfred's bark all blowing him direct	J
To his wish'd harbour On a certain day	J
All set about with roses and with fire	X2
One of three days of heat which frequent slip	L3
Like triple rubies in between the sweet	J
Mild emerald days of summer Katie went	J
Drawn by a yearning for the ice pale blooms	M3
Natant and shining firing all the bay	J
With angel fires built up of snow and gold	J
She found the bay close pack'd with groaning logs	N3
Prison'd between great arms of close hing'd wood	J
All cut from Malcolm's forests in the west	J
And floated hither to his noisy mills	O3
And all stamp'd with the potent 'G ' and 'M '	N
Which much he lov'd to see upon his goods	P3
The silent courtiers owning him their king	Q3
Out clear beyond the rustling ricebeds sang	R3
And the cool lilies starr'd the shadow'd wave	S3
'This is a day for lily love ' said Kate	J
While she made bare the lilies of her feet	J
And sang a lily song that Max had made	J
That spoke of lilies always meaning Kate	J
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'While Lady of the silver'd lakes	T3
Chaste Goddess of the sweet still shrines	U3

Isabella Valancy Crawford

Malcolm's Katie: A Love Story - Part Iii. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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