God Needs Antonio Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNNNO PQRNSTU VWFXANYZHLO A2NB2C2D2E2F2G2CHNFN OH2NI2J2XK2H2L2E M2G NL NI2 GB2XI2N2K2NXE H2O2NT| Your soul was lifted by the wings today | A |
| Hearing the master of the violin | B |
| You praised him praised the great Sabastian too | C |
| Who made that fine Chaconne but did you think | D |
| Of old Antonio Stradivari him | E |
| Who a good century and a half ago | F |
| Put his true work in that brown instrument | G |
| And by the nice adjustment of its frame | H |
| Gave it responsive life continuous | I |
| With the master's finger tips and perfected | J |
| Like them by delicate rectitude of use | K |
| That plain white aproned man who stood at work | L |
| Patient and accurate full fourscore years | M |
| Cherished his sight and touch by temperance | N |
| And since keen sense is love of perfectness | N |
| Made perfect violins the needed paths | N |
| For inspiration and high mastery | O |
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| No simpler man than he he never cried | P |
| why was I born to this monotonous task | Q |
| Of making violins or flung them down | R |
| To suit with hurling act well hurled curse | N |
| At labor on such perishable stuff | S |
| Hence neighbors in Cremona held him dull | T |
| Called him a slave a mill horse a machine | U |
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| Naldo a painter of eclectic school | V |
| Knowing all tricks of style at thirty one | W |
| And weary of them while Antonio | F |
| At sixty nine wrought placidly his best | X |
| Making the violin you heard today | A |
| Naldo would tease him oft to tell his aims | N |
| Perhaps thou hast some pleasant vice to feed | Y |
| the love of louis d'ors in heaps of four | Z |
| Each violin a heap I've naught to blame | H |
| My vices waste such heaps But then why work | L |
| With painful nicety | O |
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| Antonio then | A2 |
| I like the gold well yes but not for meals | N |
| And as my stomach so my eye and hand | B2 |
| And inward sense that works along with both | C2 |
| Have hunger that can never feed on coin | D2 |
| Who draws a line and satisfies his soul | E2 |
| Making it crooked where it should be straight | F2 |
| Antonio Stradivari has an eye | G2 |
| That winces at false work and loves the true | C |
| Then Naldo 'Tis a petty kind of fame | H |
| At best that comes of making violins | N |
| And saves no masses either Thou wilt go | F |
| To purgatory none the less | N |
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| But he | O |
| 'Twere purgatory here to make them ill | H2 |
| And for my fame when any master holds | N |
| 'Twixt chin and hand a violin of mine | I2 |
| He will be glad that Stradivari lived | J2 |
| Made violins and made them of the best | X |
| The masters only know whose work is good | K2 |
| They will choose mine and while God gives them skill | H2 |
| I give them instruments to play upon | L2 |
| God choosing me to help him | E |
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| What Were God | M2 |
| at fault for violins thou absent | G |
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| Yes | N |
| He were at fault for Stradivari's work | L |
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| Why many hold Giuseppe's violins | N |
| As good as thine | I2 |
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| May be they are different | G |
| His quality declines he spoils his hand | B2 |
| With over drinking But were his the best | X |
| He could not work for two My work is mine | I2 |
| And heresy or not if my hand slacked | N2 |
| I should rob God since his is fullest good | K2 |
| Leaving a blank instead of violins | N |
| I say not God himself can make man's best | X |
| Without best men to help him | E |
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| 'Tis God gives skill | H2 |
| But not without men's hands he could not make | O2 |
| Antonio Stradivari's violins | N |
| Without Antonio Get thee to thy easel | T |
George Eliot
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