Brother Artist! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GHHG IJJI KJJK LMML NOON PQQR STUS VWWV XYYX ZJJZ| Brother artist help me come | A |
| Artists are a maimed band | B |
| I have words but not a hand | B |
| Thou hast hands though thou art dumb | A |
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| Had I thine when words did fail | C |
| Vassal words their hasting chief | D |
| On the white awaiting leaf | D |
| Shapes of power should tell the tale | C |
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| Had I hers of music might | E |
| I would shake the air with storm | F |
| Till the red clouds trailed enorm | F |
| Boreal dances through the night | E |
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| Had I his whose foresight rare | G |
| Piles the stones with lordliest art | H |
| From the quarry of my heart | H |
| Love should climb a heavenly stair | G |
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| Had I his whose wooing slow | I |
| Wins the marble's hidden child | J |
| Out in passion undefiled | J |
| Stood my Psyche white as snow | I |
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| Maimed a little help I pray | K |
| Words suffice not for my end | J |
| Let thy hand obey thy friend | J |
| Say for me what I would say | K |
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| Draw me on an arid plain | L |
| With hoar headed mountains nigh | M |
| Under a clear morning sky | M |
| Telling of a night of rain | L |
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| Huge and half shaped like a block | N |
| Chosen for sarcophagus | O |
| By a Pharaoh glorious | O |
| One rude solitary rock | N |
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| Cleave it down along the ridge | P |
| With a fissure yawning deep | Q |
| To the heart of the hard heap | Q |
| Like the rent of riving wedge | R |
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| Through the cleft let hands appear | S |
| Upward pointed with pressed palms | T |
| As if raised in silent psalms | U |
| For salvation come anear | S |
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| Turn thee now 'tis almost done | V |
| To the near horizon's verge | W |
| Make the smallest arc emerge | W |
| Of the forehead of the sun | V |
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| One thing more I ask too much | X |
| From a brow which hope makes brave | Y |
| Sweep the shadow of the grave | Y |
| With a single golden touch | X |
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| Thanks dear painter that is all | Z |
| If thy picture one day should | J |
| Need some words to make it good | J |
| I am ready to thy call | Z |
George Macdonald
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