The Green Eye Of The Little Yellow God Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCB ADED FGHG CACA IJKJ LAAA CACA CAMA ANON CACA ABCB

There's a one eyed yellow idol to the north of KhatmanduA
There's a little marble cross below the townB
There's a broken hearted woman tends the grave of Mad CarewC
And the Yellow God forever gazes downB
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He was known as Mad Carew by the subs at KhatmanduA
He was hotter than they felt inclined to tellD
But for all his foolish pranks he was worshipped in the ranksE
And the Colonel's daughter smiled on him as wellD
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He had loved her all along with a passion of the strongF
The fact that she loved him was plain to allG
She was nearly twenty one and arrangements had begunH
To celebrate her birthday with a ballG
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He wrote to ask what present she would like from Mad CarewC
They met next day as he dismissed a squadA
And jestingly she told him then that nothing else would doC
But the green eye of the little Yellow GodA
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On the night before the dance Mad Carew seemed in a tranceI
And they chaffed him as they puffed at their cigarsJ
But for once he failed to smile and he sat alone awhileK
Then went out into the night beneath the starsJ
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He returned before the dawn with his shirt and tunic tornL
And a gash across his temple dripping redA
He was patched up right away and he slept through all the dayA
And the Colonel's daughter watched beside his bedA
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He woke at last and asked if they could send his tunic throughC
She brought it and he thanked her with a nodA
He bade her search the pocket saying That's from Mad CarewC
And she found the little green eye of the godA
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She upbraided poor Carew in the way that women doC
Though both her eyes were strangely hot and wetA
But she wouldn't take the stone and Mad Carew was left aloneM
With the jewel that he'd chanced his life to getA
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When the ball was at its height on that still and tropic nightA
She thought of him and hurried to his roomN
As she crossed the barrack square she could hear the dreamy airO
Of a waltz tune softly stealing thro' the gloomN
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His door was open wide with silver moonlight shining throughC
The place was wet and slipp'ry where she trodA
An ugly knife lay buried in the heart of Mad CarewC
'Twas the Vengeance of the Little Yellow GodA
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There's a one eyed yellow idol to the north of KhatmanduA
There's a little marble cross below the townB
There's a broken hearted woman tends the grave of Mad CarewC
And the Yellow God forever gazes downB

John Milton Hayes



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