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thin wet sky, that yellows at the rim,
And meets with sun-lost lip the marsh's brim.
The pools low lying, dank with moss and mould,
Glint through their mildews likelarge cups of gold.

Explain the lines of the poem Marshlands written by Emily Pauline Johnson.
For class 8​

Answer 1

Marshlands’ by Emily Pauline Johnson is a fourteen-line poem that is divided into seven couplets. It is possible to consider this piece as a sonnet due to its rhyme and rhythm schemes and the number of lines. The couplets rhyme perfectly, conforming the poem to a pattern of aa bb cc dd ee ff gg. And the metrical pattern is identical to iambic pentameter. This means that each line is made up of five sets of two beats. The first of these is unstressed and the second stressed. This pattern, along with the rhyme scheme, gives the poem a steady, lulling rhythm which helps to emphasize the peaceful and romanticized picture of the marshlands.