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 IZ

When you tell mamaA
you are going to do something greatB
she looks at youC
as though you were a windowD
she were trying to see throughC
and says she hopes you will be goodE
instead of greatB
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When you are five years oldF
you spend the day in the GardensG
The grass is greener than cabbagesH
and orange liliesI
stand up very straightB
and will not curtsey to the sunJ
when the wind tells themK
Only pansies bow down very lowD
Pansies make little purple cushionsG
for queen bees to stand onL
BeesI
have brown silk hair on their bodiesI
If you are carefulM
they will let you stroke themK
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The trees over the marble manN
catch up all the sunbeamsI
so the shadows have it their wayO
the shadows swallow him upP
like a blue sharkQ
When you scoop a sunbeam up on your palmR
and offer it to the marble manN
he does not noticeI
he looks into his stone beardS
When you do something greatB
people give you a stone faceI
so you do not care any moreT
when the sun throws gold on youC
through leaf holes the wind makesI
in green bushesI
This thought makes me very sadU
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Jude has eyes like tobaccoD
with yellow specks on itV
and his hair is red as a red orangeW
Jude and IX
have made a garden in the fieldY
that no one knows aboutZ
We creep in and outZ
through a little placeI
where the barbed wire is downA2
We lie in the long grassI
and crush dandelionsI
between our two cheeksI
till the milk comes out on our facesI
We hold each other tightB2
and the wind tip toes all over usI
and pelts us with thistle downA2
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Jude isn't afraid of shadowsI
not even of the ones that have eyes in themK
And he can look in the face of the sunJ
without blinking at allC2
Hush don't say sun so loudD2
The sun gets angry when you stare at himE2
If you peek in his glory windowsI
he spreads into a great white flameF2
like God out of his Burning BushG2
till you put your hands up on your faceI
and tremble like a drop of rain upon a flowerH2
that some one throws into the fireH2
and thenI2
the sun makes himself smallC2
the sun swings down out of the skyX
littler'n a starJ2
little as a sparkQ
little as a fierce red spiderH2
on a burning threadK2
and thenI2
the light goes outZ
shivers into blackened bitsI
You hold on to a wall that whirls aroundL2
and the gate is a black holeM2
You grope your way in like a toadN2
that's blinded by a stoneO2
and mama puts on cold wet ragsI
that get hot soonP2
Hush don't let's talk about the sunJ
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When you pass by the ditch where Janie isI
You run very fastQ2
and look at the other sideR2
Jude says Janie did love meS2
only she couldn't forgive meS2
and that you can love people very muchT2
and never never never forgive themK
so we poked a stick in the bottle green waterH2
But only weeds came upP
and an old top with the paint washed offU2
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Jude and IX
wave to the new moonP2
curled right up like one gold hairV2
on the bald head sandhillW2
Mama peeps out the window and smilesI
She thinksI
I am playing with myselfX2
Run Jude run with the windY2
but hold my hand tightB2
or the windY2
looking for some one to play withZ2
will take me away from youC
Wind with no one to play withZ2
cooees the orange treesI
stay at home orange treesI
have to nurse orangesI
greeny goldF
Wind shouts to the grassI
run away grassI
tugs at its rootsI
but the earth holds tightB2
and the grass falls downA2
and wind boos over itV
Wind whistles the beesI
bees too busyS2
with taking home stuff out of flowersI
won't look backA3
bees always going somewhereV2
Only Jude and IX
heads over shouldersI
watching all roads at one timeB3
run with the windY2
going to nowhereV2
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Jude and IX
were weeding our gardenJ
when we heard his whipC3
must have been a new whipC3
to cut off dandelion heads at one swingD3
He was the kind of boy you knew when you had CeliaA
with nice clothes on and curlsI
crawling about his collarH2
like little golden slugsI
and his man was leading his horseI
I wish I hadn't run to meet himE2
If you hadn't run to meet himE2
he mightn't have trod on your garden and saidK2
Get out of my field you dirty little beggarH2
he mightn't have struck you with his whipC3
How the daisies staredE3
I hate daisiesI
stupid white facesI
skinny necksI
craning over the grassI
I said It is not your fieldY
and he struck me againI2
But he didn't make me runJ
His handF3
smelled of sweet soapG3
he couldn't shake me offU2
but his man didH3
Funny how the sky fell downA2
and turned over and overH2
like a blue carpet rolling you upP
and the grass caught at your faceI
it couldn't have been spitefulM
it must have been saving itselfX2
Hot road silly wind playing with your hairV2
The road smelled of horsesI
I only got upP
when I heard a drayO
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Mama has sung ba ba black sheepI3
and put a chair with a cloth on itV
between me and the lightB2
But the clock keeps sayingD3
Dirty little beggarH2
dirty little beggarH2
Some dayO
I will get that boyJ3
I will pull off his arms and legsI
and put him in a boxI
and hide the boxI
under the bedK2
I wonderH2
will he buzzI
when I take him out to look at his bodyS2
that will have no arms to whip meS2
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Mama drew my cot to the windowD
so I can look at the starsI
I will not look at the starsI
There is a black chimneyS2
throwing up sparksI
and one tall flameF2
like gold hair in a blazeI
I know nowK3
what I shall doC
I will set fire to himE2
and he will burn up into a tall flameF2
he will scream into the skyX
and sparks will fly out of himE2
he will burn and burnL3
and his blazing hairV2
shall light up the worldM3
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Before he hit meS2
I knew he was going toC
I thought about JudeN3
I thought if he'd fightB2
but he shriveled all upP
he lay down like a fearO3
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Mama never knew about JudeN3
You always wanted to tell herH2
but somehow you never didH3
You were afraid she'd smileP3
and say he wasn't realQ3
that he was only a little dream boyJ3
because the grass didn't fall down under his feetR3
He is fading nowK3
He is just lines like a drawingD3
You can see mama in betweenS3
When she movesI
she rubs some of him outZ

Lola Ridge



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