Original poem reprinted online here: "Mary Tired" by Marjorie Pickthall Originally read: June 5, 2013 More information about the Poet: Marjorie Pickthall Past me noted that the poem is composed of "rhymed couplets." The majority of the stanzas have even lines with the exception of the third stanza. The rhyme scheme dictates how the narrative works. The poem is mostly exposition though as evident with the first stanza. The focus is on "Mary" -- yes, the biblical Mary post birth with, "With the earliest hush she saw / God beside her in the straw." Well, I'm assuming it's post birth. The reference though is to Jesus as god. I think. In the second stanza, the focus is still on the exposition, but more focus on the scene, "Drowsing Joseph nodded near, / All the glooms were rosed with wings." The the last three lines of the stanza indicates a change of perspective, "She was tired of heavenly things / There between the day...
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