Art And Heart Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCAA DDDDDDAA| Though critics may bow to art and I am its own true lover | A |
| It is not art but heart which wins the wide world over | A |
| Though smooth be the heartless prayer no ear in Heaven will mind it | B |
| And the finest phrase falls dead if there is no feeling behind it | B |
| Though perfect the player's touch little if any he sways us | C |
| Unless we feel his heart throb through the music he plays us | C |
| Though the poet may spend his life in skilfully rounding a measure | A |
| Unless he writes from a full warm heart he gives us little pleasure | A |
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| So it is not the speech which tells but the impulse which goes with the saying | D |
| And it is not the words of the prayer but the yearning back of the praying | D |
| It is not the artist's skill which into our soul comes stealing | D |
| With a joy that is almost pain but it is the player's feeling | D |
| And it is not the poet's song though sweeter than sweet bells chiming | D |
| Which thrills us through and through but the heart which beats under the rhyming | D |
| And therefore I say again though I am art's own true lover | A |
| That it is not art but heart which wins the wide world over | A |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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