What Makes An Artist Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEBE FGAG BHBI JKEWe got to talking art one day discussing in a general way | A |
How some can match with brush and paint the glory of a tree | B |
And some in stone can catch the things of which the dreamy poet sings | C |
While others seem to have no way to tell the joys they see | B |
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Old Blake had sat in silence there and let each one of us declare | D |
Our notions of what's known as art until he'd heard us through | E |
And then said he 'It seems to me that any man whoe'er he be | B |
Becomes an artist by the good he daily tries to do | E |
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'He need not write the books men read to be an artist No indeed | F |
He need not work with paint and brush to show his love of art | G |
Who does a kindly deed to day and helps another on his way | A |
Has painted beauty on a face and played the poet's part | G |
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'Though some of us cannot express our inmost thoughts of loveliness | B |
We prove we love the beautiful by how we act and live | H |
The poet singing of a tree no greater poet is than he | B |
Who finds it in his heart some care unto a tree to give | I |
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'Though he who works in marble stone the name of artist here may own | J |
No less an artist is the man who guards his children well | K |
'Tis art to love the fine and true by what we are and what we do | E |
How much we love life's nobler things to all the world we tell ' | - |
Edgar Albert Guest
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