Emily Pauline Johnson

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Beyond The Blue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEE FFGGHHEE IIJJJJEE JJKKLLEE LLJJMMEE NNOOPPEE KKQQDDEE

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Speak of you sir You bet he did Ben Fields was far too soundB
To go back on a fellow just because he weren't aroundB
Why sir he thought a lot of you and only three months backC
Says he quot The Squire will some time come a snuffing out our trackC
And give us the surprise quot And so I got to thinking thenD
That any day you might drop down on Rove and me and BenD
And now you've come for nothing for the lad has left us twoE
And six long weeks ago sir he went up beyond the blueE
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Who's Rove Oh he's the collie and the only thing on earthF
That I will ever love again Why Squire that dog is worthF
More than you ever handled and that's quite a piece I knowG
Ah there the beggar is come here you scalawag and showG
Your broken leg all bandaged up Yes sir it's pretty soreH
I did it curse me and I think I feel the pain far moreH
Than him for somehow I just feel as if I'd been untrueE
To what my brother said before he went beyond the blueE
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You see the day before he died he says to me quot Say NedI
Be sure you take good care of poor old Rover when I'm deadI
And maybe he will cheer your lonesome hours up a bitJ
And when he takes to you just see that you're deserving it quotJ
Well Squire it wasn't any use I tried but couldn't getJ
The friendship of that collie for I needed it you betJ
I might as well have tried to get the moon to help me throughE
For Rover's heart had gone with Ben 'way up beyond the blueE
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He never seemed to take to me nor follow me aboutJ
For all I coaxed and petted for my heart was starving outJ
For want of some companionship I thought if only heK
Would lick my hand or come and put his head aside my kneeK
Perhaps his touch would scatter something of the gloom awayL
But all alone I had to live until there came a dayL
When tired of the battle as you'd have tired tooE
I wished to heaven I'd gone with Ben 'way up beyond the blueE
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One morning I took out Ben's gun and thought I'd hunt all dayL
And started through the clearing for the bush that forward layL
When something made me look around I scarce believed my mindJ
But sure enough the dog was following right close behindJ
A feeling first of joy and than a sharper greater oneM
Of anger came at knowing 'twas not me but Ben's old gunM
That Rove was after well sir I just don't mind telling youE
But I forgot that moment Ben was up beyond the blueE
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Perhaps it was but jealousy perhaps it was despairN
But I just struck him with the gun and broke the bone right thereN
And then my very throat seemed choked for he began to whineO
With pain God knows how tenderly I took that dog of mineO
Up in my arms and tore my old red necktie into bandsP
To bind the broken leg while there he lay and licked my handsP
And though I cursed my soul it was the brightest day I knewE
Or even cared to live since Ben went up beyond the blueE
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I tell you Squire I nursed him just as gently as could beK
And now I'm all the world to him and he's the world to meK
Look sir at that big noble soul right in his faithful eyesQ
The square forgiving honesty that deep down in them liesQ
Eh Squire What's that you say He's got no soul I tell you thenD
He's grander and he's better than the mass of what's called menD
And I guess he stands a better chance than many of us doE
Of seeing Ben some day again 'way up beyond the blueE

Emily Pauline Johnson



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