Were I A Skilful Painter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE AGHGAIHI JGKGLMAM JNINOPQP ABCBDEFE| Were I a skilful painter | A |
| My pencil not my pen | B |
| Should try to teach thee hope and fear | C |
| And who would blame me then | B |
| Fear of the tide of darkness | D |
| That floweth fast behind | E |
| And hope to make thee journey on | F |
| In the journey of the mind | E |
| - | |
| Were I a skilful painter | A |
| What should I paint for thee | G |
| A tiny spring bud peeping out | H |
| From a withered wintry tree | G |
| The warm blue sky of summer | A |
| O'er jagged ice and snow | I |
| And water hurrying gladsome out | H |
| From a cavern down below | I |
| - | |
| The dim light of a beacon | J |
| Upon a stormy sea | G |
| Where a lonely ship to windward beats | K |
| For life and liberty | G |
| A watery sun ray gleaming | L |
| Athwart a sullen cloud | M |
| And falling on some grassy flower | A |
| The rain had earthward bowed | M |
| - | |
| Morn peeping o'er a mountain | J |
| In ambush for the dark | N |
| And a traveller in the vale below | I |
| Rejoicing like a lark | N |
| A taper nearly vanished | O |
| Amid the dawning gray | P |
| And a maiden lifting up her head | Q |
| And lo the coming day | P |
| - | |
| I am no skilful painter | A |
| Let who will blame me then | B |
| That I would teach thee hope and fear | C |
| With my plain talking pen | B |
| Fear of the tide of darkness | D |
| That floweth fast behind | E |
| And hope to make thee journey on | F |
| In the journey of the mind | E |
George Macdonald
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