What Makes An Artist Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEBE FGAG BHBI JKE

We got to talking art one day discussing in a general wayA
How some can match with brush and paint the glory of a treeB
And some in stone can catch the things of which the dreamy poet singsC
While others seem to have no way to tell the joys they seeB
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Old Blake had sat in silence there and let each one of us declareD
Our notions of what's known as art until he'd heard us throughE
And then said he 'It seems to me that any man whoe'er he beB
Becomes an artist by the good he daily tries to doE
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'He need not write the books men read to be an artist No indeedF
He need not work with paint and brush to show his love of artG
Who does a kindly deed to day and helps another on his wayA
Has painted beauty on a face and played the poet's partG
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'Though some of us cannot express our inmost thoughts of lovelinessB
We prove we love the beautiful by how we act and liveH
The poet singing of a tree no greater poet is than heB
Who finds it in his heart some care unto a tree to giveI
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'Though he who works in marble stone the name of artist here may ownJ
No less an artist is the man who guards his children wellK
'Tis art to love the fine and true by what we are and what we doE
How much we love life's nobler things to all the world we tell '-

Edgar Albert Guest



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