The Artist Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HCIC CJCJ KCLCL MNMO| Lang haired gauvies coom my way drawin' t' owd abbey an' brig | A |
| All their crack is o' Art staities an' picturs an' paints | B |
| Want to put me on their canvas donned i' my farmer's rig | A |
| Tell me I'm pairt o' t' scenery stained glass windeys an' saints | B |
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| I reckon I'm artist an' all though I niver gave it a thowt | C |
| Breeder o' stock is my trade Mike Pullan o' t' Abbey Close | D |
| What sud a farmer want wi' picturs that brass has bowt | C |
| All his art is i' t' mistal wheer t' heifers are ranged i' rows | E |
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| Look at yon pedigree bull wi' an eye as breet as a star | F |
| An' a coat that shines like velvet when it catches t' glent o' t' sun | G |
| Hark to him bealin' for t' cows wi' a voice like t' thunner on t' scar | F |
| Watch them sinews i' t' neck ripplin' wi' mischief an' fun | G |
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| Three generations o' men have lived their lives for yon bull | H |
| Tewed at his keep all t' day dreamed o' his sleekness all t' neet | C |
| Moulded the bugth o' his buttocks fashioned the breadth o' his skull | I |
| Ivery one on 'em artists sculptors o' butcher's meat | C |
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| What are your Rubens and Vandykes anent the craft that is Breed | C |
| Anent the art that is Life what's figures o' bronze or stone | J |
| Us farmers 'll mould you models better nor statties that's deead | C |
| Strength that is wick i' the flesh Beauty that's bred i' the bone | J |
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| Bailiff's doughter at t' Hollins | K |
| shoo's Breed an' shoo's Life an shoo's Art | C |
| Bred frae a Westmorland statesman out o' a Craven lass | L |
| Carries hersen like a queen when shoo drives to markit i' t' cart | C |
| Noan o' yon scraumy legged painters sal iver git howd o' her brass | L |
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| Picturs is reight enough for fowks cluttered up i' Leeds | M |
| Fowks that have ne'er hannled beasts can't tell a tup frae a yowe | N |
| But the art for coontry lads is the art that breathes an' feeds | M |
| An' t' finest gallery i' t' worrld is a Yorkshire cattle show | O |
Frederic William Moorman
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