Before A Painting Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBA CDECDE| I knew not who had wrought with skill so fine | A |
| What I beheld nor by what laws of art | B |
| He had created life and love and heart | B |
| On canvas from mere color curve and line | A |
| Silent I stood and made no move or sign | A |
| Not with the crowd but reverently apart | B |
| Nor felt the power my rooted limbs to start | B |
| But mutely gazed upon that face divine | A |
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| And over me the sense of beauty fell | C |
| As music over a raptured listener to | D |
| The deep voiced organ breathing out a hymn | E |
| Or as on one who kneels his beads to tell | C |
| There falls the aureate glory filtered through | D |
| The windows in some old cathedral dim | E |
James Weldon Johnson
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