Anonymous Drawing Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCDDEEAAFGFHHIJKK LLBB| A delicate young Negro stands | A |
| With the reins of a horse clutched loosely in his hands | A |
| So delicate indeed that we wonder if he can hold the spirited creature | B |
| beside him | C |
| Until the master shall arrive to ride him | C |
| Already the animal's nostrils widen with rage or fear | D |
| But if we imagine him snorting about to rear | D |
| This boy who should know about such things better than we | E |
| Only stands smiling passive and ornamental in a fantastic livery | E |
| Of ruffles and puffed breeches | A |
| Watching the artist apparently as he sketches | A |
| Meanwhile the petty lord who must have paid | F |
| For the artist's trip up from Perugia for the horse for the boy for | G |
| everything here in fact has been delayed | F |
| Kept too long by his steward perhaps discussing | H |
| Some business concerning the estate or fussing | H |
| Over the details of his impeccable toilet | I |
| With a manservant whose opinion is that any alteration at all would spoil it | J |
| However fast he should come hurrying now | K |
| Over this vast greensward mopping his brow | K |
| Clear of the sweat of the fine Renaissance morning it would be too late | L |
| The artist will have had his revenge for being made to wait | L |
| A revenge not only necessary but right and clever | B |
| Simply to leave him out of the scene forever | B |
Donald Justice
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