Mariana Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCACACABADCDCCDDCDD CDEFGFGFGHHHGCGCGCCC CIGIGIGGGGJKJKJKIILG GGGGGGGGGMGMGMNNNCIC LCICCCOCOCOCPPPGQGQG QHHHCRCDCDSSSEGBCGCC CCBGCCCCCCCCCCCC| The 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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