To Tintoretto In Venice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDCD EFEE GEHE ECEC EIEI EEEE JEJE| The Art of Painting had in the Primitive years looked with the light not towards it Before Tintoretto's date however many painters practised shadows and lights and turned more or less sunwards but he set the figure between himself and a full sun His work is to be known in Venice by the splendid trick of an occluded sun and a shadow thrown straight at the spectator | A |
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| Tintoretto's thronged Procession to Calvary and his Crucifixion incidentally named are two of the greatest of his multitude of works in Venice | B |
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| Master thy enterprise | C |
| Magnificent magnanimous was well done | D |
| Which seized the head of Art and turned her eyes | C |
| The simpleton and made her front the sun | D |
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| Long had she sat content | E |
| Her young unlessoned back to a morning gay | F |
| To a solemn noon to a cloudy firmament | E |
| And looked upon a world in gentle day | E |
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| But thy imperial call | G |
| Bade her to stand with thee and breast the light | E |
| And therefore face the shadows mystical | H |
| Sombre translucent vestiges of night | E |
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| Yet glories of the day | E |
| Eagle we know thee by thy undaunted eyes | C |
| Sky ward and by thy glooms we blow thy way | E |
| Ambiguous and those halo misted dyes | C |
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| Thou Cloud the bridegroom's friend | E |
| The bridegroom sun Master we know thy sign | I |
| A mystery of hues world without end | E |
| And hide and seek of gamesome and divine | I |
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| Shade of the noble head | E |
| Cast hitherward upon the noble breast | E |
| Human solemnities thrice hallow d | E |
| The haste to Calvary the Cross at rest | E |
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| Look sunward Angel then | J |
| Carry the fortress heavens by that hand | E |
| Still be the interpreter of suns to men | J |
| And shadow us O thou Tower for thou shalt stand | E |
Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson Meynell
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