At The Play Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGHG IDJD| The poet painted a woman's soul | A |
| Human trusting and kind | B |
| And then he drew the soul of a man | C |
| Brutal and base and blind | B |
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| And the woman loved in the old old way | D |
| And the man in the way of men | E |
| And the poet christened their lives A Play | D |
| And he sat down to watch it and then | E |
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| A woman rose with a bitter laugh | F |
| And her eyes were as dry as stone | G |
| As she bowed her head at the poet's stall | H |
| And said in a strange cold tone | G |
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| He paints the best who has dipped his brush | I |
| In the heart's own blood they say | D |
| You took my love and you took my life | J |
| But you gave the world a play | D |
Charles Hamilton Musgrove
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