ennyson picks up his poem. The first stanza of the poem sets up the sense of melancholy and rejection:
             The rusted nails fell from the knots
             That held the pear to the gable-wall.
             The broken sheds look'd sad and strange:
             I would that I were dead!' (Tennyson 1202, lines 1-12)
             Tennyson creates here a landscape that is dark and isolated; his description of the surroundings embodies the emotion of Mariana. Describing the "broken shed" as looking sad and strange is a reference to Mariana's state of being, her heart is broken. The "lonely moated grange" enforces the sense of depression resulting from isolation that is felt by Mariana. The cause of Mariana's isolation is a lover who won't come back to her, she feels abandoned.
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