Gainsborough Ghosts'in The Grosvenor Gallery Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC DEDEEFEF GHGHHIHI JAJAAKAK LHMHHLHB| They smile upon the western wall | A |
| The lips that laughed an age agone | B |
| The fops the dukes the beauties all | A |
| Le Brun that sang and Carr that shone | B |
| We gaze with idle eyes we con | B |
| The faces of an elder time | C |
| Alas and OURS is flitting on | B |
| Oh moral for an empty rhyme | C |
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| Think when the tumult and the crowd | D |
| Have left the solemn rooms and chill | E |
| When dilettanti are not loud | D |
| When lady critics are not shrill | E |
| Ah think how strange upon the still | E |
| Dim air may sound these voices faint | F |
| Once more may Johnson talk his fill | E |
| And fair Dalrymple charm the Saint | F |
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| Of us they speak as we of them | G |
| Like us perchance they criticise | H |
| Our wit they vote is Brummagem | G |
| Our beauty dim to Devon's eyes | H |
| Their silks and lace our cloth despise | H |
| Their pumps our boots that pad the mud | I |
| What modern fop with Walpole vies | H |
| With St Leger what modern blood | I |
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| Ah true we lack the charm the wit | J |
| Our very greatest sure are small | A |
| And Mr Gladstone is not Pitt | J |
| And Garrick comes not when we call | A |
| Yet pass an age and after all | A |
| Even WE may please the folk that look | K |
| When we are faces on the wall | A |
| And voices in a history book | K |
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| In Art the statesman yet shall live | L |
| With collars keen with Roman nose | H |
| To Beauty yet shall Millais give | M |
| The roses that outlast the rose | H |
| The lords of verse the slaves of prose | H |
| On canvas yet shall seem alive | L |
| And charm the mob that comes and goes | H |
| And lives in | B |
Andrew Lang
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