A Post-impressionist Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFF GGBBBBHHHHIIJJ KKKKBBHHLLMMBBHH BBHHHHNN HHHOHOPPHH KKQQRRHN HHSSHHKKTTSOHHBBB HHHHNNNNNNHHHHHHPeter Wilson A R A | A |
In his small atelier | B |
Studied Continental Schools | C |
Drew by Academic rules | C |
So he made his bid for fame | D |
But no golden answer came | D |
For the fashion of his day | E |
Chanced to set the other way | E |
And decadent forms of Art | F |
Drew the patrons of the mart | F |
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Now this poor reward of merit | G |
Rankled so in Peter's spirit | G |
It was more than he could bear | B |
So one night in mad despair | B |
He took his canvas for the year | B |
Isle of Wight from Southsea Pier | B |
And he hurled it from his sight | H |
Hurled it blindly to the night | H |
Saw it fall diminuendo | H |
From the open lattice window | H |
Till it landed with a flop | I |
On the dust bin's ashen top | I |
Where 'mid damp and rain and grime | J |
It remained till morning time | J |
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Then when morning brought reflection | K |
He was shamed at his dejection | K |
And he thought with consternation | K |
Of his poor ill used creation | K |
Down he rushed and found it there | B |
Lying all exposed and bare | B |
Mud bespattered spoiled and botched | H |
Water sodden fungus blotched | H |
All the outlines blurred and wavy | L |
All the colours turned to gravy | L |
Fluids of a dappled hue | M |
Blues on red and reds on blue | M |
A pea green mother with her daughter | B |
Crazy boats on crazy water | B |
Steering out to who knows what | H |
An island or a lobster pot | H |
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Oh the wretched man's despair | B |
Was it lost beyond repair | B |
Swift he bore it from below | H |
Hastened to the studio | H |
Where with anxious eyes he studied | H |
If the ruin blotched and muddied | H |
Could by any human skill | N |
Be made a normal picture still | N |
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Thus in most repentant mood | H |
Unhappy Peter Wilson stood | H |
When with pompous face self centred | H |
Willoughby the critic entered mdash | O |
He of whom it has been said | H |
He lives a century ahead mdash | O |
And sees with his prophetic eye | P |
The forms which Time will justify | P |
A fact which surely must abate | H |
All longing to reincarnate | H |
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Ah Wilson said the famous man | K |
Turning himself the walls to scan | K |
The same old style of thing I trace | Q |
Workmanlike but commonplace | Q |
Believe me sir the work that lives | R |
Must furnish more than Nature gives | R |
'The light that never was ' you know | H |
That is your mark but here hullo | N |
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What's this What's this Magnificent | H |
I've wronged you Wilson I repent | H |
A masterpiece A perfect thing | S |
What atmosphere What colouring | S |
Spanish Armada is it not | H |
A view of Ryde no matter what | H |
I pledge my critical renown | K |
That this will be the talk of Town | K |
Where did you get those daring hues | T |
Those blues on reds those reds on blues | T |
That pea green face that gamboge sky | S |
You've far outcried the latest cry mdash | O |
Out Monet ed Monet I have said | H |
Our Art was sleeping but not dead | H |
Long have we waited for the Star | B |
I watched the skies for it afar | B |
The hour has come mdash and here you are | B |
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And that is how our artist friend | H |
Found his struggles at an end | H |
And from his little Chelsea flat | H |
Became the Park Lane plutocrat | H |
'Neath his sheltered garden wall | N |
When the rain begins to fall | N |
And the stormy winds do blow | N |
You may see them in a row | N |
Red effects and lake and yellow | N |
Getting nicely blurred and mellow | N |
With the subtle gauzy mist | H |
Of the great Impressionist | H |
Ask him how he chanced to find | H |
How to leave the French behind | H |
And he answers quick and smart | H |
English climate's best for Art | H |
Arthur Conan Doyle
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