Old And New Art Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBCCD EFGGHE I JHHJJHHJ KLMKL H ANNAANNAOPQRSQ| I St Luke The Painter | A |
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| Give honour unto Luke Evangelist | B |
| For he it was the aged legends say | C |
| Who first taught Art to fold her hands and pray | C |
| Scarcely at once she dared to rend the mist | B |
| Of devious symbols but soon having wist | B |
| How sky breadth and field silence and this day | C |
| Are symbols also in some deeper way | C |
| She looked through these to God and was God's priest | D |
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| And if past noon her toil began to irk | E |
| And she sought talismans and turned in vain | F |
| To soulless self reflections of man's skill | G |
| Yet now in this the twilight she might still | G |
| Kneel in the latter grass to pray again | H |
| Ere the night cometh and she may not work | E |
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| II Not As These | I |
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| 'I am not as these are ' the poet saith | J |
| In youth's pride and the painter among men | H |
| At bay where never pencil comes nor pen | H |
| And shut about with his own frozen breath | J |
| To others for whom only rhyme wins faith | J |
| As poets only paint as painters then | H |
| He turns in the cold silence and again | H |
| Shrinking 'I am not as these are ' he saith | J |
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| And say that this is so what follows it | K |
| For were thine eyes set backwards in thine head | L |
| Such words were well but they see on and far | M |
| Unto the lights of the great Past new lit | K |
| Fair for the Future's track look thou instead | L |
| Say thou instead 'I am not as these are ' | - |
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| III The Husbandmen | H |
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| Though God as one that is an householder | A |
| Called these to labour in his vine yard first | N |
| Before the husk of darkness was well burst | N |
| Bidding them grope their way out and bestir | A |
| Who questioned of their wages answered 'Sir | A |
| Unto each man a penny ' though the worst | N |
| Burthen of heat was theirs and the dry thirst | N |
| Though God hath since found none such as these were | A |
| To do their work like them Because of this | O |
| Stand not ye idle in the market place | P |
| Which of ye knoweth he is not that last | Q |
| Who may be first by faith and will yea his | R |
| The hand which after the appointed days | S |
| And hours shall give a Future to their Past | Q |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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