On The Beach Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BBCBBC DDCEEC FFCGHC IICJJC BBCAAC IICBBC DDCKKC BBCBBC BBCDDC DDCLMC DDCNNC

Lines By A Private TutorA
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When the young Augustus EdwardB
Has reluctantly gone bedwardB
He's the urchin I am privileged to teachC
From my left hand waistcoat pocketB
I extract a batter'd locketB
And I commune with it walking on the beachC
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I had often yearn'd for somethingD
That would love me e'en a dumb thingD
But such happiness seem'd always out of reachC
Little boys are off like arrowsE
With their little spades and barrowsE
When they see me bearing down upon the beachC
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And although I'm rather handsomeF
Tiny babes when I would dance 'emF
On my arm set up so horrible a screechC
That I pitch them to their nursesG
With I fear me mutter'd cursesH
And resume my lucubrations on the beachC
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And the rabbits won't come nigh meI
And the gulls observe and fly meI
And I doubt upon my honour if a leechC
Would stick on me as on othersJ
And I know if I had brothersJ
They would cut me when we met upon the beachC
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So at last I bought this trinketB
For although I love to think itB
'Twasn't GIVEN me with a pretty little speechC
No I bought it of a pedlarA
Brown and wizen'd as a medlarA
Who was hawking odds and ends about the beachC
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But I've managed very nearlyI
To believe that I was dearlyI
Loved by Somebody who blushing like a peachC
Flung it o'er me saying Wear itB
For my sake and I declare itB
Seldom strikes me that I bought it on the beachC
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I can see myself revealingD
Unsuspected depths of feelingD
As in tones that half upbraid and half beseechC
I aver with what delight IK
Would give anything my right eyeK
For a souvenir of our stroll upon the beachC
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O that eye that never glisten'dB
And that voice to which I've listen'dB
But in fancy how I dote upon them eachC
How regardless what o'clock itB
Is I pore upon that locketB
Which does not contain her portrait on the beachC
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As if something were inside itB
I laboriously hide itB
And a rather pretty sermon you might preachC
Upon Fantasy selectingD
For your instance the affectingD
Tale of me and my proceedings on the beachC
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I depict her ah how charmingD
I portray myself alarmingD
Herby swearing I would mount the deadly breachC
Or engage in any scrimmageL
For a glimpse of her sweet imageM
Or her shadow or her footprint on the beachC
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And I'm ever ever seeingD
My imaginary BeingD
And I'd rather that my marrowbones should bleachC
In the winds than that a cruelN
Fate should snatch from me the jewelN
Which I bought for one and sixpence on the beachC

Charles Stuart Calverley



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