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 Khatmandu | A |
| There's a little marble cross below the town | B |
| There's a broken hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew | C |
| And the Yellow God forever gazes down | B |
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| He was known as Mad Carew by the subs at Khatmandu | A |
| He was hotter than they felt inclined to tell | D |
| But for all his foolish pranks he was worshipped in the ranks | E |
| And the Colonel's daughter smiled on him as well | D |
| - | |
| He had loved her all along with a passion of the strong | F |
| The fact that she loved him was plain to all | G |
| She was nearly twenty one and arrangements had begun | H |
| To celebrate her birthday with a ball | G |
| - | |
| He wrote to ask what present she would like from Mad Carew | C |
| They met next day as he dismissed a squad | A |
| And jestingly she told him then that nothing else would do | C |
| But the green eye of the little Yellow God | A |
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| On the night before the dance Mad Carew seemed in a trance | I |
| And they chaffed him as they puffed at their cigars | J |
| But for once he failed to smile and he sat alone awhile | K |
| Then went out into the night beneath the stars | J |
| - | |
| He returned before the dawn with his shirt and tunic torn | L |
| And a gash across his temple dripping red | A |
| He was patched up right away and he slept through all the day | A |
| And the Colonel's daughter watched beside his bed | A |
| - | |
| He woke at last and asked if they could send his tunic through | C |
| She brought it and he thanked her with a nod | A |
| He bade her search the pocket saying That's from Mad Carew | C |
| And she found the little green eye of the god | A |
| - | |
| She upbraided poor Carew in the way that women do | C |
| Though both her eyes were strangely hot and wet | A |
| But she wouldn't take the stone and Mad Carew was left alone | M |
| With the jewel that he'd chanced his life to get | A |
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| When the ball was at its height on that still and tropic night | A |
| She thought of him and hurried to his room | N |
| As she crossed the barrack square she could hear the dreamy air | O |
| Of a waltz tune softly stealing thro' the gloom | N |
| - | |
| His door was open wide with silver moonlight shining through | C |
| The place was wet and slipp'ry where she trod | A |
| An ugly knife lay buried in the heart of Mad Carew | C |
| 'Twas the Vengeance of the Little Yellow God | A |
| - | |
| There's a one eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu | A |
| There's a little marble cross below the town | B |
| There's a broken hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew | C |
| And the Yellow God forever gazes down | B |
John Milton Hayes
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