Beyond The Blue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEE FFGGHHEE IIJJJJEE JJKKLLEE LLJJMMEE NNOOPPEE KKQQDDEE| I | A |
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| Speak of you sir You bet he did Ben Fields was far too sound | B |
| To go back on a fellow just because he weren't around | B |
| Why sir he thought a lot of you and only three months back | C |
| Says he quot The Squire will some time come a snuffing out our track | C |
| And give us the surprise quot And so I got to thinking then | D |
| That any day you might drop down on Rove and me and Ben | D |
| And now you've come for nothing for the lad has left us two | E |
| And six long weeks ago sir he went up beyond the blue | E |
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| Who's Rove Oh he's the collie and the only thing on earth | F |
| That I will ever love again Why Squire that dog is worth | F |
| More than you ever handled and that's quite a piece I know | G |
| Ah there the beggar is come here you scalawag and show | G |
| Your broken leg all bandaged up Yes sir it's pretty sore | H |
| I did it curse me and I think I feel the pain far more | H |
| Than him for somehow I just feel as if I'd been untrue | E |
| To what my brother said before he went beyond the blue | E |
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| You see the day before he died he says to me quot Say Ned | I |
| Be sure you take good care of poor old Rover when I'm dead | I |
| And maybe he will cheer your lonesome hours up a bit | J |
| And when he takes to you just see that you're deserving it quot | J |
| Well Squire it wasn't any use I tried but couldn't get | J |
| The friendship of that collie for I needed it you bet | J |
| I might as well have tried to get the moon to help me through | E |
| For Rover's heart had gone with Ben 'way up beyond the blue | E |
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| He never seemed to take to me nor follow me about | J |
| For all I coaxed and petted for my heart was starving out | J |
| For want of some companionship I thought if only he | K |
| Would lick my hand or come and put his head aside my knee | K |
| Perhaps his touch would scatter something of the gloom away | L |
| But all alone I had to live until there came a day | L |
| When tired of the battle as you'd have tired too | E |
| I wished to heaven I'd gone with Ben 'way up beyond the blue | E |
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| One morning I took out Ben's gun and thought I'd hunt all day | L |
| And started through the clearing for the bush that forward lay | L |
| When something made me look around I scarce believed my mind | J |
| But sure enough the dog was following right close behind | J |
| A feeling first of joy and than a sharper greater one | M |
| Of anger came at knowing 'twas not me but Ben's old gun | M |
| That Rove was after well sir I just don't mind telling you | E |
| But I forgot that moment Ben was up beyond the blue | E |
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| Perhaps it was but jealousy perhaps it was despair | N |
| But I just struck him with the gun and broke the bone right there | N |
| And then my very throat seemed choked for he began to whine | O |
| With pain God knows how tenderly I took that dog of mine | O |
| Up in my arms and tore my old red necktie into bands | P |
| To bind the broken leg while there he lay and licked my hands | P |
| And though I cursed my soul it was the brightest day I knew | E |
| Or even cared to live since Ben went up beyond the blue | E |
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| I tell you Squire I nursed him just as gently as could be | K |
| And now I'm all the world to him and he's the world to me | K |
| Look sir at that big noble soul right in his faithful eyes | Q |
| The square forgiving honesty that deep down in them lies | Q |
| Eh Squire What's that you say He's got no soul I tell you then | D |
| He's grander and he's better than the mass of what's called men | D |
| And I guess he stands a better chance than many of us do | E |
| Of seeing Ben some day again 'way up beyond the blue | E |
Emily Pauline Johnson
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