Through Tears Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBBBB DEBEBBFB BBGBHBCB CIBIJBKB LMHMGBGB| An artist toiled over his pictures | A |
| He laboured by night and by day | B |
| He struggled for glory and honour | C |
| But the world it had nothing to say | B |
| His walls were ablaze with the splendours | B |
| We see in the beautiful skies | B |
| But the world beheld only the colours | B |
| That were made out of chemical dyes | B |
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| Time sped And he lived loved and suffered | D |
| He passed through the valley of grief | E |
| Again he toiled over his canvas | B |
| Since in labour alone was relief | E |
| It showed not the splendour of colours | B |
| Of those of his earlier years | B |
| But the world the world bowed down before it | F |
| Because it was painted with tears | B |
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| A poet was gifted with genius | B |
| And he sang and he sang all the days | B |
| He wrote for the praise of the people | G |
| But the people accorded no praise | B |
| Oh his songs were as blithe as the morning | H |
| As sweet as the music of birds | B |
| But the world had no homage to offer | C |
| Because they were nothing but words | B |
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| Time sped And the poet through sorrow | C |
| Became like his suffering kind | I |
| Again he toiled over his poems | B |
| To lighten the grief of his mind | I |
| They were not so flowing and rhythmic | J |
| As those of his earlier years | B |
| But the world lo it offered its homage | K |
| Because they were written in tears | B |
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| So ever the price must be given | L |
| By those seeking glory in art | M |
| So ever the world is repaying | H |
| The grief stricken suffering heart | M |
| The happy must ever be humble | G |
| Ambition must wait for the years | B |
| Ere hoping to win the approval | G |
| Of a world that looks on through its tears | B |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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