Mariana Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCACACABADCDCCDDCDD CDEFGFGFGHHHGCGCGCCC CIGIGIGGGGJKJKJKIILG GGGGGGGGGMGMGMNNNCIC LCICCCOCOCOCPPPGQGQG QHHHCRCDCDSSSEGBCGCC CCBGCCCCCCCCCCCCThe sunset crimson poppies are departed | A |
Mariana | B |
The dusky centred sultry smelling poppies | C |
The drowsy hearted | A |
That burnt like flames along the garden coppice | C |
All heavy headed | A |
The ruby cupped and opium brimming poppies | C |
That slumber wedded | A |
Mariana | B |
The sunset crimson poppies are departed | A |
Oh heavy heavy are the hours that fall | D |
The lonesome hours of the lonely days | C |
No poppy strews oblivion by the wall | D |
Where lone the last pod sways | C |
Oblivion that was hers of old that happier made her days | C |
Oh weary weary is the sky o'er all | D |
The days that creep the hours that crawl | D |
And weary all the ways | C |
She leans her face against the old stone wall | D |
The lichened wall the mildewed wall | D |
And dreams the long long days | C |
Of one who will not come again whatever may befall | D |
E | |
All night it blew The rain streamed down | F |
And drowned the world in misty wet | G |
At morning 'round the sunflower's crown | F |
A row of glimmering drops was set | G |
The candytuft heat shrivelled brown | F |
And beds of drought dried mignonette | G |
Were beat to earth but wearier oh | H |
The rain was than the sun's fierce glow | H |
That in the garth had wrought such woe | H |
That killed the moss rose ere it bloomed | G |
And scorched the double hollyhocks | C |
And bred great poisonous weeds that doomed | G |
The snapdragon and standing phlox | C |
'Mid which gaunt spiders wove and loomed | G |
Their dusty webs 'twixt rows of box | C |
And rotted into sleepy ooze | C |
The lilied moat that lined with yews | C |
Lay scummed with many sickly hues | C |
How oft she longed and prayed for rain | I |
To blot the hateful landscape out | G |
To hem her heart so parched with pain | I |
With sounds of coolth and broken drought | G |
And cure with change her stagnant brain | I |
And soothe to sleep all care and doubt | G |
At last when many days had past | G |
And she had ceased to care at last | G |
The longed for rain came falling fast | G |
At night as late she lay awake | J |
And thought of him who had not come | K |
She heard the gray wind moaning shake | J |
Her lattice then the steady drum | K |
Of storm upon the leads The ache | J |
Within her heart so burdensome | K |
Grew heavier with the moan of rain | I |
The house was still save at her pane | I |
The wind cried hushed then cried again | L |
All night she lay awake and wept | G |
There was no other thing to do | G |
At dawn she rose and silent crept | G |
Adown the stairs that led into | G |
The dripping garth the storm had swept | G |
With ruin where of every hue | G |
The flowers lay rotting stained with mould | G |
Where all was old unkempt and old | G |
And ragged as a marigold | G |
She sat her down where oft she sat | G |
Upon a bench of marble where | M |
In lines she oft would marvel at | G |
A Love was carved She did not dare | M |
Look on it then remembering that | G |
Here in past time he kissed her hair | M |
And murmured vows while soft above | N |
The full moon lit the forth thereof | N |
The slowly crumbling form of Love | N |
She could but weep remembering hours | C |
Like these Then in the drizzling rain | I |
That weighed with wet the dying flowers | C |
She sought the old stone dial again | L |
The dial among the moss rose bowers | C |
Where often she had read in vain | I |
Of time and change and love and loss | C |
Rude lettered and o'ergrown with moss | C |
That slow the gnomon moved across | C |
Remembering this she turned away | O |
The rain and tears upon her face | C |
There was no thing to do or say | O |
She stood a while a little space | C |
And watched the rain bead round and gray | O |
Upon the cobweb's tattered lace | C |
And tag the toadstool's spongy brim | P |
With points of mist and orbing dim | P |
With fog the sunflower's ruined rim | P |
With fog through which the moon at night | G |
Would glimmer like a spectre sail | Q |
Or sullenly a blur of light | G |
Like some huge glow worm dimly trail | Q |
'Neath which she 'd hear wrapped deep in white | G |
The far sea moaning on its shale | Q |
While in the garden pacing slow | H |
And listening to its surge and flow | H |
She'd seem to hear her own heart's woe | H |
Now as the fog crept in from sea | C |
A great white darkness like a pall | R |
The yews and huddled shrubbery | C |
That dripped along the weedy wall | D |
Turned phantoms and as shadowy | C |
She too seemed wandering 'mid it all | D |
A phantom pale and sad and strange | S |
And hopeless doomed for aye to range | S |
About the melancholy grange | S |
E | |
The pansies too are dead the violet varied | G |
Mariana | B |
The raven dyed and fire fretted pansies | C |
To memory married | G |
That from the grass like forms in old romances | C |
Raised fairy faces | C |
All dead they lie the violet velvet pansies | C |
In many places | C |
Mariana | B |
The pansies too are dead the violet varied | G |
Oh hateful hateful are the hours that pass | C |
The lonely hours of the lonesome nights | C |
No pansy scatters heartsease through the grass | C |
That autumn sorrow blights | C |
The heartsease that was hers of old that happier made her nights | C |
Oh barren barren is her life alas | C |
Its youth and beauty all it has | C |
And barren all delights | C |
She lays her face against the withered grass | C |
The sodden grass the autumn grass | C |
And thinks the long long nights | C |
Of one who will not come again whatever comes to pass | C |
Madison Julius Cawein
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