Life's Canvas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEFF GGHHIICC JJKKLLMM| Sunshine and shadow and laughter and tears | A |
| These are forever the paints of the years | B |
| Splashed on the canvas of life day by day | C |
| We are the artists the colors are they | C |
| We are the painters the pigments we use | D |
| Never we're wholly permitted to chose | E |
| Grief with its gray tint and joy with its red | F |
| Come from life's tubes to be blended and spread | F |
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| Here at the easel the brushes at hand | G |
| Each for a time is permitted to stand | G |
| White was the canvas when first we began | H |
| Ready to picture the life of a man | H |
| Now we ar splashing the pigments about | I |
| Knowing the reds and blues must give out | I |
| Soon we must turn to the dull hues and gray | C |
| Painting the sorrows that darken the way | C |
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| Now with the sunshine and now with the shade | J |
| Slowly but surely the picture is made | J |
| Even the gray tints with beauty may glow | K |
| Recalling the joy of the lost long ago | K |
| Let me not daub it with doubt and despair | L |
| Deeds that are hasty unkind and unfair | L |
| But when the last bit of pigment is dried | M |
| Let me look back at my canvas with pride | M |
Edgar Albert Guest
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