Post-impressionism Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF EEGG HHII JJEE BBKK DDEE| I cannot tell you how I love | A |
| The canvases of Mr Dove | A |
| Which Saturday I went to see | B |
| In Mr Thurber's gallery | B |
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| At first you fancy they are built | C |
| As patterns for a crazy quilt | C |
| But soon you see that they express | D |
| An ambient simultaneousness | D |
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| This thing which you would almost bet | E |
| Portrays a Spanish omelette | E |
| Depicts instead with wondrous skill | F |
| A horse and cart upon a hill | F |
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| Now Mr Dove has too much art | E |
| To show the horse or show the cart | E |
| Instead he paints the creak and strain | G |
| Get it No pike is half as plain | G |
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| This thing which would appear to show | H |
| A fancy vest scenario | H |
| Is really quite another thing | I |
| A flock of pigeons on the wing | I |
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| But Mr Dove is much too keen | J |
| To let a single bird be seen | J |
| To show the pigeons would not do | E |
| And so he simply paints the coo | E |
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| It's all as simple as can be | B |
| He paints the things you cannot see | B |
| Just as composers please the ear | K |
| With programme things you cannot hear | K |
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| Dove is the cleverest of chaps | D |
| And gazing at his rhythmic maps | D |
| I wondered and I'm wondering yet | E |
| Whether he did them on a bet | E |
Bert Leston Taylor
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