To The Artists Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLGMFNOPQR KBSTUUAMUGVGOWXU| You tell me these great lords have raised up Art | A |
| I say they have degraded it Look you | B |
| When ever did they let the poet sing | C |
| The painter paint the sculptor hew and cast | D |
| The music raise her heavenly voice except | E |
| To praise them and their wretched rule o'er men | F |
| Behold our English poets that were poor | G |
| Since these great lords were rich and held the state | H |
| Behold the glories of the German land | I |
| Poets musicians driven like them to death | J |
| Unless they'd tune their spirits' harps to play | K |
| Drawing room pieces for the chattering fools | L |
| Who aped the taste for Art or for a leer | G |
| Go to no Art was ever noble yet | M |
| Noble and high the speech of godlike men | F |
| When fetters bound it be they gold or flowers | N |
| All that is noblest highest greatest best | O |
| Comes from the Galilean peasant's hut comes from | P |
| The Stratford village the Ayrshire plough the shop | Q |
| That gave us Chaucer the humble Milton's trade | R |
| Bach's Mozart's great Beethoven's And these are they | K |
| Who knew the People being what they knew | B |
| Go to if in the future years no strain | S |
| No picture of earth's glory like to what | T |
| Your Artists raised for that small clique or this | U |
| Of supercilious imbecilities | U |
| O if no better demi gods of Art | A |
| Can rise save those whose barbarous tinsel yet | M |
| Makes hideous all the beauty of old homes | U |
| Then let us seek the comforts of despair | G |
| In democratic efforts dead and gone | V |
| Weep with Pheideian Athens sigh an hour | G |
| With Raffaelle's Florence beat the head and breast | O |
| O'er Shakspere's England that from Milton's took | W |
| In lips the name that leaped from lead and flame | X |
| From out her heart against the Spanish guns | U |
Francis William Lauderdale Adams
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