In The Picture Gallery Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDEF GHGI JGJG ABAB GKGK LMLN OOOO GHGI| With palette laden | A |
| She sat as I passed her | B |
| A dainty maiden | A |
| Before an Old Master | B |
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| What mountain top is | C |
| She bent upon Ah | D |
| She neatly copies | E |
| Murillo's Madonna | F |
| - | |
| But rapt and brimming | G |
| The eyes' full chalice says | H |
| The heart builds dreaming | G |
| Its fairy palaces | I |
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| - | |
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| The eighteenth year rolled | J |
| By ere returning | G |
| I greeted the dear old | J |
| Scenes with yearning | G |
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| With palette laden | A |
| She sat as I passed her | B |
| A faded maiden | A |
| Before an Old Master | B |
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| But what is she doing | G |
| The same thing still lo | K |
| Hotly pursuing | G |
| That very Murillo | K |
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| Her wrist never falters | L |
| It keeps her that poor wrist | M |
| With panels for altars | L |
| And daubs for the tourist | N |
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| And so she has painted | O |
| Through years unbrightened | O |
| Till hopes have fainted | O |
| And hair has whitened | O |
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| But rapt and brimming | G |
| The eyes' full chalice says | H |
| The heart builds dreaming | G |
| Its fairy palaces | I |
Henrik Johan Ibsen
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