Freddy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDEECFGEHDIDJJCK AKLLEEACCCJMNM| Nobody knows what I feel about Freddy | A |
| I cannot make anyone understand | B |
| I love him sub specie aet ernitaties | C |
| I love him out of hand | B |
| I don't love him so much in the restaurants that's a fact | D |
| To get him hobnob with my old pub chums needs too much tact | D |
| He don't love them and they don't love him | E |
| In the pub lub lights they say Freddy very dim | E |
| But get him alone on the open saltings | C |
| Where the sea licks up to the fen | F |
| He is his and my own heart's best | G |
| World without end ahem | E |
| People who say we ought to get married ought to get | H |
| smacked | D |
| Why should we do it when we can't afford it and have | I |
| ourselves whacked | D |
| Thank you kind friends and relations thank you | J |
| We do very well as we do | J |
| Oh what do I care for the pub lub lights | C |
| And the friends I love so well | K |
| There's more in the way I feel about Freddy | A |
| Than a friend cal tell | K |
| But all the same I don't care much for his meelyoo I mean | L |
| I don't anheimate mich in the ha ha well off suburban scene | L |
| Where men are few and hearts go tumptytum | E |
| In the tennis club lub lights poet very dumb | E |
| But there never was a boy like Freddy | A |
| For a haystack's ivory tower of bliss | C |
| Where speaking sub specie humanitatis | C |
| Freddy and me can kiss | C |
| Exhiled from his meelyoo | J |
| Exhiled from mine | M |
| There's all Tom Tiddler's time pocket | N |
| For his love and mine | M |
Stevie Smith
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