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 ABCBThere'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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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