Jude Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCEB FGHIBJKDGLIIMK NIOPQRNISBITCIIU DVWXYZZIA2IIIIB2IA2 IKJC2D2E2IF2G2IH2H2I 2C2XJ2QH2K2I2ZIL2M2N 2O2IP2J IQ2R2S2S2T2KH2PU2 XP2V2W2IIX2Y2B2Y2Z2C Z2IIIFIIIB2A2VIS2IA3 V2XIB3Y2V2 XJC3C3D3AIH2IIE2E2K2 H2C3E3IIIIYI2JF3G3U2 H3A2H2PIMX2V2IPO I3VB2D3H2H2OJ3IIIK2H 2IS2S2 DIIS2IF2IK3CE2F2XE2L 3V2M3 S2CN3B2PO3 N3H2H3P3Q3J3R3K3D3S3 IZWhen you tell mama | A |
you are going to do something great | B |
she looks at you | C |
as though you were a window | D |
she were trying to see through | C |
and says she hopes you will be good | E |
instead of great | B |
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When you are five years old | F |
you spend the day in the Gardens | G |
The grass is greener than cabbages | H |
and orange lilies | I |
stand up very straight | B |
and will not curtsey to the sun | J |
when the wind tells them | K |
Only pansies bow down very low | D |
Pansies make little purple cushions | G |
for queen bees to stand on | L |
Bees | I |
have brown silk hair on their bodies | I |
If you are careful | M |
they will let you stroke them | K |
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The trees over the marble man | N |
catch up all the sunbeams | I |
so the shadows have it their way | O |
the shadows swallow him up | P |
like a blue shark | Q |
When you scoop a sunbeam up on your palm | R |
and offer it to the marble man | N |
he does not notice | I |
he looks into his stone beard | S |
When you do something great | B |
people give you a stone face | I |
so you do not care any more | T |
when the sun throws gold on you | C |
through leaf holes the wind makes | I |
in green bushes | I |
This thought makes me very sad | U |
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Jude has eyes like tobacco | D |
with yellow specks on it | V |
and his hair is red as a red orange | W |
Jude and I | X |
have made a garden in the field | Y |
that no one knows about | Z |
We creep in and out | Z |
through a little place | I |
where the barbed wire is down | A2 |
We lie in the long grass | I |
and crush dandelions | I |
between our two cheeks | I |
till the milk comes out on our faces | I |
We hold each other tight | B2 |
and the wind tip toes all over us | I |
and pelts us with thistle down | A2 |
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Jude isn't afraid of shadows | I |
not even of the ones that have eyes in them | K |
And he can look in the face of the sun | J |
without blinking at all | C2 |
Hush don't say sun so loud | D2 |
The sun gets angry when you stare at him | E2 |
If you peek in his glory windows | I |
he spreads into a great white flame | F2 |
like God out of his Burning Bush | G2 |
till you put your hands up on your face | I |
and tremble like a drop of rain upon a flower | H2 |
that some one throws into the fire | H2 |
and then | I2 |
the sun makes himself small | C2 |
the sun swings down out of the sky | X |
littler'n a star | J2 |
little as a spark | Q |
little as a fierce red spider | H2 |
on a burning thread | K2 |
and then | I2 |
the light goes out | Z |
shivers into blackened bits | I |
You hold on to a wall that whirls around | L2 |
and the gate is a black hole | M2 |
You grope your way in like a toad | N2 |
that's blinded by a stone | O2 |
and mama puts on cold wet rags | I |
that get hot soon | P2 |
Hush don't let's talk about the sun | J |
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When you pass by the ditch where Janie is | I |
You run very fast | Q2 |
and look at the other side | R2 |
Jude says Janie did love me | S2 |
only she couldn't forgive me | S2 |
and that you can love people very much | T2 |
and never never never forgive them | K |
so we poked a stick in the bottle green water | H2 |
But only weeds came up | P |
and an old top with the paint washed off | U2 |
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Jude and I | X |
wave to the new moon | P2 |
curled right up like one gold hair | V2 |
on the bald head sandhill | W2 |
Mama peeps out the window and smiles | I |
She thinks | I |
I am playing with myself | X2 |
Run Jude run with the wind | Y2 |
but hold my hand tight | B2 |
or the wind | Y2 |
looking for some one to play with | Z2 |
will take me away from you | C |
Wind with no one to play with | Z2 |
cooees the orange trees | I |
stay at home orange trees | I |
have to nurse oranges | I |
greeny gold | F |
Wind shouts to the grass | I |
run away grass | I |
tugs at its roots | I |
but the earth holds tight | B2 |
and the grass falls down | A2 |
and wind boos over it | V |
Wind whistles the bees | I |
bees too busy | S2 |
with taking home stuff out of flowers | I |
won't look back | A3 |
bees always going somewhere | V2 |
Only Jude and I | X |
heads over shoulders | I |
watching all roads at one time | B3 |
run with the wind | Y2 |
going to nowhere | V2 |
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Jude and I | X |
were weeding our garden | J |
when we heard his whip | C3 |
must have been a new whip | C3 |
to cut off dandelion heads at one swing | D3 |
He was the kind of boy you knew when you had Celia | A |
with nice clothes on and curls | I |
crawling about his collar | H2 |
like little golden slugs | I |
and his man was leading his horse | I |
I wish I hadn't run to meet him | E2 |
If you hadn't run to meet him | E2 |
he mightn't have trod on your garden and said | K2 |
Get out of my field you dirty little beggar | H2 |
he mightn't have struck you with his whip | C3 |
How the daisies stared | E3 |
I hate daisies | I |
stupid white faces | I |
skinny necks | I |
craning over the grass | I |
I said It is not your field | Y |
and he struck me again | I2 |
But he didn't make me run | J |
His hand | F3 |
smelled of sweet soap | G3 |
he couldn't shake me off | U2 |
but his man did | H3 |
Funny how the sky fell down | A2 |
and turned over and over | H2 |
like a blue carpet rolling you up | P |
and the grass caught at your face | I |
it couldn't have been spiteful | M |
it must have been saving itself | X2 |
Hot road silly wind playing with your hair | V2 |
The road smelled of horses | I |
I only got up | P |
when I heard a dray | O |
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Mama has sung ba ba black sheep | I3 |
and put a chair with a cloth on it | V |
between me and the light | B2 |
But the clock keeps saying | D3 |
Dirty little beggar | H2 |
dirty little beggar | H2 |
Some day | O |
I will get that boy | J3 |
I will pull off his arms and legs | I |
and put him in a box | I |
and hide the box | I |
under the bed | K2 |
I wonder | H2 |
will he buzz | I |
when I take him out to look at his body | S2 |
that will have no arms to whip me | S2 |
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Mama drew my cot to the window | D |
so I can look at the stars | I |
I will not look at the stars | I |
There is a black chimney | S2 |
throwing up sparks | I |
and one tall flame | F2 |
like gold hair in a blaze | I |
I know now | K3 |
what I shall do | C |
I will set fire to him | E2 |
and he will burn up into a tall flame | F2 |
he will scream into the sky | X |
and sparks will fly out of him | E2 |
he will burn and burn | L3 |
and his blazing hair | V2 |
shall light up the world | M3 |
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Before he hit me | S2 |
I knew he was going to | C |
I thought about Jude | N3 |
I thought if he'd fight | B2 |
but he shriveled all up | P |
he lay down like a fear | O3 |
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Mama never knew about Jude | N3 |
You always wanted to tell her | H2 |
but somehow you never did | H3 |
You were afraid she'd smile | P3 |
and say he wasn't real | Q3 |
that he was only a little dream boy | J3 |
because the grass didn't fall down under his feet | R3 |
He is fading now | K3 |
He is just lines like a drawing | D3 |
You can see mama in between | S3 |
When she moves | I |
she rubs some of him out | Z |
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