Marrysong
He never learned her, quite. Year after year that territory, without seasons, shifted under his eye. An hour he could be lost in the walled anger of her quarried hurt on turning, see cool water laughing where the day before there were stones in her voice.
He charted. She made wilderness again.
Roads disappeared. The map was never true.
Wind brought him rain sometimes, tasting of sea – and suddenly she would change the shape of shores faultlessly calm. All, all was each day new; the shadows of her love shortened or grew like trees seen from an unexpected hill, new country at each jaunty helpless journey.
So he accepted that geography, constantly strange.
Wondered. Stayed home increasingly to find
His way among the landscapes of her mind.

Dennis Scott (16 December 1939 – 21 February 1991) was a Jamaican poet, playwright, actor (best known for appearances on The Cosby Show) and dancer.
Marrysong' is a poem about a man who is desperate to understand his wife. Her wife is indecisive, hot heat woman who he compares to territory. The poem explains that the man explored her, and tried to 'map' her so that he could understand her. But he can’t understand her, and he keeps surprising her. He almost expresses a sad and trouble attitude, but he seems more baffled by her. He also finds her a little weird and impossible in the way that her mood changes every day. The poem concludes with the man putting an end. Trying to figure her out, and takes her for who she is without questioning it.The poem is one long block. The poem is arranged in lines. There are only a couple of rhyming lines. This may show how the marriage constantly changes and as a result there is no uniformity and things are rarely the same. The rhyming pattern is ABAB. The rhythm of the poem is slow and has heavy rounded sounds. Dennis Scott may have chosen this rhythm and rhyme to