Cocotte Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD AEAEAFAA AFAAAGAG HIHIJFJA AKAFHDHD LMNMHOHO HPHPADAD DFDAQRQR| When a girl's sixteen and as poor as she's pretty | A |
| And she hasn't a friend and she hasn't a home | B |
| Heigh ho She's as safe in Paris city | A |
| As a lamb night strayed where the wild wolves roam | B |
| And that was I oh it's seven years now | C |
| Some water's run down the Seine since then | D |
| And I've almost forgotten the pangs and the tears now | C |
| And I've almost taken the measure of men | D |
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| Oh I found me a lover who loved me only | A |
| Artist and poet and almost a boy | E |
| And my heart was bruised and my life was lonely | A |
| And him I adored with a wonderful joy | E |
| If he'd come to me with his pockets empty | A |
| How we'd have laughed in a garret gay | F |
| But he was rich and in radiant plenty | A |
| We lived in a villa at Viroflay | A |
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| Then came the War and of bliss bereft me | A |
| Then came the call and he went away | F |
| All that he had in the world he left me | A |
| With the rose wreathed villa at Viroflay | A |
| Then came the news and the tragic story | A |
| My hero my splendid lover was dead | G |
| Sword in hand on the field of glory | A |
| And he died with my name on his lips they said | G |
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| So here am I in my widow's mourning | H |
| The weeds I've really no right to wear | I |
| And women fix me with eyes of scorning | H |
| Call me cocotte but I do not care | I |
| And men look at me with eyes that borrow | J |
| The brightness of love but I turn away | F |
| Alone say I I will live with Sorrow | J |
| In my little villa at Viroflay | A |
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| And lo I'm living alone with Pity | A |
| And they say that pity from love's not far | K |
| Let me tell you all last week in the city | A |
| I took the metro at Saint Lazare | F |
| And the carriage was crowded to overflowing | H |
| And when there entered at Chateaudun | D |
| Two wounded poilus with medals showing | H |
| I eagerly gave my seat to one | D |
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| You should have seen them they'd slipped death's clutches | L |
| But sadder a sight you will rarely find | M |
| One had a leg off and walked on crutches | N |
| The other a bit of a boy was blind | M |
| And they both sat down and the lad was trying | H |
| To grope his way as a blind man tries | O |
| And half of the women around were crying | H |
| And some of the men had tears in their eyes | O |
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| How he stirred me this blind boy clinging | H |
| Just like a child to his crippled chum | P |
| But I did not cry Oh no a singing | H |
| Came to my heart for a year so dumb | P |
| Then I knew that at three and twenty | A |
| There is wonderful work to be done | D |
| Comfort and kindness and joy in plenty | A |
| Peace and light and love to be won | D |
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| Oh thought I could mine eyes be given | D |
| To one who will live in the dark alway | F |
| To love and to serve 'twould make life Heaven | D |
| Here in my villa at Viroflay | A |
| So I left my poilus and now you wonder | Q |
| Why to day I am so elate | R |
| Look In the glory of sunshine yonder | Q |
| They're bringing my blind boy in at the gate | R |
Robert Service
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