The Artist As An Old Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABCBCDEFEAFAF GHIIJG| If you ask him he will talk for hours | A |
| how at fourteen he hammered signs fingers | A |
| raw with cold and later painted bowers | A |
| in ladies' boudoirs how he played checkers | A |
| for two weeks in jail and lived on dark bread | B |
| how he fled the border to a country | C |
| which disappeared wars ago unfriended | B |
| crossed a continent while this century | C |
| began He seldom speaks of painting now | D |
| Young men have time and theories old men work | E |
| He has painted countless portraits Sallow | F |
| nameless faces made glistening in oil smirk | E |
| above anonymous mantelpieces | A |
| The turpentine has a familiar smell | F |
| but his hand trembles with odd new palsies | A |
| Perched on the maulstick it nears the easel | F |
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| He has come to like his resignation | G |
| In his sketch books ink dark cossacks hear | H |
| the snorts of horses in the crunch of snow | I |
| His pen alone recalls that years ago | I |
| one horseman set his teeth and aimed his spear | J |
| which poised seemed pointed straight to pierce the sun | G |
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