Claude Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIK LMLM NOPO BQBQ DFDF RHRH GHGG SOSO| I named him Claude 'twas a strange conceit | A |
| 'Twas a name that no relatives ever bore | B |
| Yet there lingered around it a mem'ry sweet | A |
| Of a face and a voice I miss evermore | B |
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| I was pacing the deck of a captive ship | C |
| That was straining its cables to get away | D |
| From the parched up town and its crowded slip | C |
| To its home on the wave and its life in the spray | D |
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| When I saw the beautiful sorrowful dame | E |
| And never oh never shall I forget | F |
| The sweet chord struck as she spoke the name | E |
| That thrilled through my being and lingers yet | F |
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| 'Twas a winsome woman with raven hair | G |
| And a lovely face and a beaming eye | H |
| With a smile that of joy and sorrow had share | G |
| And her form had the charms for which sculptors vie | H |
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| I never had seen such a lovely hand | I |
| As the one that she pressed to her snowy brow | J |
| And her parted lips showed a glistening band | I |
| Of pearly teeth in an even row | K |
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| A fragrant scent like a rose's breath | L |
| Hung round her and seemed of herself a part | M |
| And a bouquet of lillies as pale as death | L |
| Drooped sadly above her beating heart | M |
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| She only uttered the one word Claude | N |
| But oh 'twas so touchingly sweetly said | O |
| A volume of grief expressed in a word | P |
| As she stedfastly gazed through the void overhead | O |
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| Then I noticed the sombre garments she wore | B |
| And I knew the grim reaper had gathered her flower | Q |
| 'Twas the sense of the heart crushing sorrow she bore | B |
| Invested that name with such marvellous power | Q |
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| She went ashore and we sailed away | D |
| 'Twas the first and the only time ever we met | F |
| But my memory limns her as lovely to day | D |
| As she was on that day I can never forget | F |
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| Months after my baby boy came unto me | R |
| And I gave him the name she had breathed in her sigh | H |
| He was fair and sweet as the bloom on the tree | R |
| Yet he never felt mine though I could not tell why | H |
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| But that musical note floated round in the air | G |
| Claude Claude sang the zephyrs that softly sped by | H |
| And his eyes had a far a way look as if there | G |
| Far beyond he could see what I failed to descry | G |
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| One eve in the gloaming I hushed him to rest | S |
| And the trees whispered Claude as they waved overhead | O |
| He smiled as he nestled more close to my breast | S |
| And I wept for I knew that my darling was dead | O |
John Hartley
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