The Painter On Silk Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH ICJK CDDBLC MNABICO| There was a man | A |
| Who made his living | B |
| By painting roses | C |
| Upon silk | D |
| - | |
| He sat in an upper chamber | E |
| And painted | F |
| And the noises of the street | G |
| Meant nothing to him | H |
| - | |
| When he heard bugles and fifes and drums | I |
| He thought of red and yellow and white roses | C |
| Bursting in the sunshine | J |
| And smiled as he worked | K |
| - | |
| He thought only of roses | C |
| And silk | D |
| When he could get no more silk | D |
| He stopped painting | B |
| And only thought | L |
| Of roses | C |
| - | |
| The day the conquerors | M |
| Entered the city | N |
| The old man | A |
| Lay dying | B |
| He heard the bugles and drums | I |
| And wished he could paint the roses | C |
| Bursting into sound | O |
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