A Post-impressionist Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFF GGBBBBHHHHIIJJ KKKKBBHHLLMMBBHH BBHHHHNN HHHOHOPPHH KKQQRRHN HHSSHHKKTTSOHHBBB HHHHNNNNNNHHHHHH

Peter Wilson A R AA
In his small atelierB
Studied Continental SchoolsC
Drew by Academic rulesC
So he made his bid for fameD
But no golden answer cameD
For the fashion of his dayE
Chanced to set the other wayE
And decadent forms of ArtF
Drew the patrons of the martF
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Now this poor reward of meritG
Rankled so in Peter's spiritG
It was more than he could bearB
So one night in mad despairB
He took his canvas for the yearB
Isle of Wight from Southsea PierB
And he hurled it from his sightH
Hurled it blindly to the nightH
Saw it fall diminuendoH
From the open lattice windowH
Till it landed with a flopI
On the dust bin's ashen topI
Where 'mid damp and rain and grimeJ
It remained till morning timeJ
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Then when morning brought reflectionK
He was shamed at his dejectionK
And he thought with consternationK
Of his poor ill used creationK
Down he rushed and found it thereB
Lying all exposed and bareB
Mud bespattered spoiled and botchedH
Water sodden fungus blotchedH
All the outlines blurred and wavyL
All the colours turned to gravyL
Fluids of a dappled hueM
Blues on red and reds on blueM
A pea green mother with her daughterB
Crazy boats on crazy waterB
Steering out to who knows whatH
An island or a lobster potH
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Oh the wretched man's despairB
Was it lost beyond repairB
Swift he bore it from belowH
Hastened to the studioH
Where with anxious eyes he studiedH
If the ruin blotched and muddiedH
Could by any human skillN
Be made a normal picture stillN
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Thus in most repentant moodH
Unhappy Peter Wilson stoodH
When with pompous face self centredH
Willoughby the critic entered mdashO
He of whom it has been saidH
He lives a century ahead mdashO
And sees with his prophetic eyeP
The forms which Time will justifyP
A fact which surely must abateH
All longing to reincarnateH
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Ah Wilson said the famous manK
Turning himself the walls to scanK
The same old style of thing I traceQ
Workmanlike but commonplaceQ
Believe me sir the work that livesR
Must furnish more than Nature givesR
'The light that never was ' you knowH
That is your mark but here hulloN
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What's this What's this MagnificentH
I've wronged you Wilson I repentH
A masterpiece A perfect thingS
What atmosphere What colouringS
Spanish Armada is it notH
A view of Ryde no matter whatH
I pledge my critical renownK
That this will be the talk of TownK
Where did you get those daring huesT
Those blues on reds those reds on bluesT
That pea green face that gamboge skyS
You've far outcried the latest cry mdashO
Out Monet ed Monet I have saidH
Our Art was sleeping but not deadH
Long have we waited for the StarB
I watched the skies for it afarB
The hour has come mdash and here you areB
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And that is how our artist friendH
Found his struggles at an endH
And from his little Chelsea flatH
Became the Park Lane plutocratH
'Neath his sheltered garden wallN
When the rain begins to fallN
And the stormy winds do blowN
You may see them in a rowN
Red effects and lake and yellowN
Getting nicely blurred and mellowN
With the subtle gauzy mistH
Of the great ImpressionistH
Ask him how he chanced to findH
How to leave the French behindH
And he answers quick and smartH
English climate's best for ArtH

Arthur Conan Doyle



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