How The Helpmate Of Blue-beard Made Free With A Door Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDDDDC CCEEAFFCCA FFAACFFFFF AAEEGFFFFG HHEEAFFIIA FFFFJAAFFJ FFKKFFFFFF FFFFLFFEEL FFAAFMMAAF FFFFFFFFFF FFNN| A maiden from the Bosphorus | A |
| With eyes as bright as phosphorus | A |
| Once wed the wealthy bailiff | B |
| Of the caliph | B |
| Of Kelat | C |
| Though diligent and zealous he | D |
| Became a slave to jealousy | D |
| Considering her beauty | D |
| 'Twas his duty | D |
| To be that | C |
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| When business would necessitate | C |
| A journey he would hesitate | C |
| But fearing to disgust her | E |
| He would trust her | E |
| With his keys | A |
| Remarking to her prayerfully | F |
| I beg you'll use them carefully | F |
| Don't look what I deposit | C |
| In that closet | C |
| If you please | A |
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| It may be mentioned casually | F |
| That blue as lapis lazuli | F |
| He dyed his hair his lashes | A |
| His mustaches | A |
| And his beard | C |
| And just because he did it he | F |
| Aroused his wife's timidity | F |
| Her terror she dissembled | F |
| But she trembled | F |
| When he neared | F |
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| This feeling insalubrious | A |
| Soon made her most lugubrious | A |
| And bitterly she missed her | E |
| Elder sister | E |
| Marie Anne | G |
| She asked if she might write her to | F |
| Come down and spend a night or two | F |
| Her husband answered rightly | F |
| And politely | F |
| Yes you can | G |
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| Blue Beard the Monday following | H |
| His jealous feeling swallowing | H |
| Packed all his clothes together | E |
| In a leather | E |
| Bound valise | A |
| And feigning reprehensibly | F |
| He started out ostensibly | F |
| By traveling to learn a | I |
| Bit of Smyrna | I |
| And of Greece | A |
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| His wife made but a cursory | F |
| Inspection of the nursery | F |
| The kitchen and the airy | F |
| Little dairy | F |
| Were a bore | J |
| As well as big or scanty rooms | A |
| And billiard bath and ante rooms | A |
| But not that interdicted | F |
| And restricted | F |
| Little door | J |
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| For all her curiosity | F |
| Awakened by the closet he | F |
| So carefully had hidden | K |
| And forbidden | K |
| Her to see | F |
| This damsel disobedient | F |
| Did something inexpedient | F |
| And in the keyhole tiny | F |
| Turned the shiny | F |
| Little key | F |
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| Then started back impulsively | F |
| And shrieked aloud convulsively | F |
| Three heads of girls he'd wedded | F |
| And beheaded | F |
| Met her eye | L |
| And turning round much terrified | F |
| Her darkest fears were verified | F |
| For Blue Beard stood behind her | E |
| Come to find her | E |
| On the sly | L |
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| Perceiving she was fated to | F |
| Be soon decapitated too | F |
| She telegraphed her brothers | A |
| And some others | A |
| What she feared | F |
| And Sister Anne looked out for them | M |
| In readiness to shout for them | M |
| Whenever in the distance | A |
| With assistance | A |
| They appeared | F |
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| But only from her battlement | F |
| She saw some dust that cattle meant | F |
| The ordinary story | F |
| Isn't gory | F |
| But a jest | F |
| But here's the truth unqualified | F |
| The husband wasn't mollified | F |
| Her head is in his bloody | F |
| Little study | F |
| With the rest | F |
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| - | |
| The Moral Wives we must allow | F |
| Who to their husbands will not bow | F |
| A stern and dreadful lesson learn | N |
| When as you've read they're cut in turn | N |
Guy Wetmore Carryl
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