Deeply Morbid Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DEEFBAF GAHBFF AHAHFF IJIJ BKHLHH AEHMEMFMF ENAOMF PKONMF HQQRRHHHF HHIISS| Deeply morbid deeply morbid was the girl who typed the letters | A |
| Always out of office hours running with her social betters | A |
| But when daylight and the darkness of the office closed about her | B |
| Not for this ah not for this her office colleagues came to doubt her | B |
| It was that look within her eye | C |
| Why did it always seem to say goodbye | C |
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| Joan her name was and at lunchtime | D |
| Solitary solitary | E |
| She would go and watch the pictures In the National Gallery | E |
| All alone all alone | F |
| This time with no friend beside her | B |
| She would go and watch the pictures | A |
| All alone | F |
| - | |
| Will she leave her office colleagues | G |
| Will she leave her evening pleasures | A |
| Toil within a friendly bureau | H |
| Running later in her leisure | B |
| All alone all alone | F |
| Before the pictures she seemed turned to stone | F |
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| Close upon the Turner pictures | A |
| Closer than a thought may go | H |
| Hangs her eye and all the colours | A |
| Leap into a special glow | H |
| All for her all alone | F |
| All for her all for Joan | F |
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| First the canvas where the ocean | I |
| Like a mighty animal | J |
| With a wicked motion | I |
| Leaps for sailors' funeral | J |
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| Holds her painting Oh the creature | B |
| Oh the wicked virile thing | K |
| With its skin of fleck and shadow | H |
| Stretching tightening over him | L |
| Wild yet caputured wild yet caputured | H |
| By the painter Joan is quite enraptured | H |
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| Now she edges from the canvas | A |
| To another loved more dearly | E |
| Where the awful light of purest | H |
| Sunshine falls across the spray | M |
| There the burning coasts of fancy | E |
| Open to her pleasure lay | M |
| All alone all alone | F |
| Come away come away | M |
| All alone | F |
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| Lady Mary Lady Kitty | E |
| The Honourable Featherstonehaugh | N |
| Polly Tommy from the office | A |
| Which of these shall hold her now | O |
| Come away come away | M |
| All alone | F |
| - | |
| The spray reached out and sucked her in | P |
| It was hardly a noticed thing | K |
| That Joan was there and is not now | O |
| Oh go and tell young Featherstonehaugh | N |
| Gone away gone away | M |
| All alone | F |
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| She stood up straight | H |
| The sun fell down | Q |
| There was no more of London Town | Q |
| She went upon the painted shore | R |
| And there she walks for ever more | R |
| Happy quite | H |
| Beaming bright | H |
| In a happy happy light | H |
| All alone | F |
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| They say she was a morbid girl no doubt of it | H |
| And what befell her clearly grew out of it | H |
| But I say she's a lucky one | I |
| To walk for ever in that sun | I |
| And as I bless sweet Turner's name | S |
| I wish that I could do the same | S |
Stevie Smith
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