On The Beach Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCBBC DDCEEC FFCGHC IICJJC BBCAAC IICBBC DDCKKC BBCBBC BBCDDC DDCLMC DDCNNCLines By A Private Tutor | A |
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When the young Augustus Edward | B |
Has reluctantly gone bedward | B |
He's the urchin I am privileged to teach | C |
From my left hand waistcoat pocket | B |
I extract a batter'd locket | B |
And I commune with it walking on the beach | C |
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I had often yearn'd for something | D |
That would love me e'en a dumb thing | D |
But such happiness seem'd always out of reach | C |
Little boys are off like arrows | E |
With their little spades and barrows | E |
When they see me bearing down upon the beach | C |
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And although I'm rather handsome | F |
Tiny babes when I would dance 'em | F |
On my arm set up so horrible a screech | C |
That I pitch them to their nurses | G |
With I fear me mutter'd curses | H |
And resume my lucubrations on the beach | C |
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And the rabbits won't come nigh me | I |
And the gulls observe and fly me | I |
And I doubt upon my honour if a leech | C |
Would stick on me as on others | J |
And I know if I had brothers | J |
They would cut me when we met upon the beach | C |
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So at last I bought this trinket | B |
For although I love to think it | B |
'Twasn't GIVEN me with a pretty little speech | C |
No I bought it of a pedlar | A |
Brown and wizen'd as a medlar | A |
Who was hawking odds and ends about the beach | C |
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But I've managed very nearly | I |
To believe that I was dearly | I |
Loved by Somebody who blushing like a peach | C |
Flung it o'er me saying Wear it | B |
For my sake and I declare it | B |
Seldom strikes me that I bought it on the beach | C |
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I can see myself revealing | D |
Unsuspected depths of feeling | D |
As in tones that half upbraid and half beseech | C |
I aver with what delight I | K |
Would give anything my right eye | K |
For a souvenir of our stroll upon the beach | C |
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O that eye that never glisten'd | B |
And that voice to which I've listen'd | B |
But in fancy how I dote upon them each | C |
How regardless what o'clock it | B |
Is I pore upon that locket | B |
Which does not contain her portrait on the beach | C |
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As if something were inside it | B |
I laboriously hide it | B |
And a rather pretty sermon you might preach | C |
Upon Fantasy selecting | D |
For your instance the affecting | D |
Tale of me and my proceedings on the beach | C |
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I depict her ah how charming | D |
I portray myself alarming | D |
Herby swearing I would mount the deadly breach | C |
Or engage in any scrimmage | L |
For a glimpse of her sweet image | M |
Or her shadow or her footprint on the beach | C |
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And I'm ever ever seeing | D |
My imaginary Being | D |
And I'd rather that my marrowbones should bleach | C |
In the winds than that a cruel | N |
Fate should snatch from me the jewel | N |
Which I bought for one and sixpence on the beach | C |
Charles Stuart Calverley
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