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 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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