Love As A Landscape Painter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD ABCCBEC FGCA CHEC HICCJKLCCLC CMMB LCMC AAA CMLM NNOCK CFAP CBCMCNNC CBNMM| ON a rocky peak once sat I early | A |
| Gazing on the mist with eyes unmoving | B |
| Stretch'd out like a pall of greyish texture | C |
| All things round and all above it cover'd | D |
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| Suddenly a boy appear'd beside me | A |
| Saying Friend what meanest thou by gazing | B |
| On the vacant pall with such composure | C |
| Hast thou lost for evermore all pleasure | C |
| Both in painting cunningly and forming | B |
| On the child I gazed and thought in secret | E |
| Would the boy pretend to be a master | C |
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| Wouldst thou be for ever dull and idle | F |
| Said the boy no wisdom thou'lt attain to | G |
| See I'll straightway paint for thee a figure | C |
| How to paint a beauteous figure show thee | A |
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| And he then extended his fore finger | C |
| Ruddy was it as a youthful rosebud | H |
| Tow'rd the broad and far outstretching carpet | E |
| And began to draw there with his finger | C |
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| First on high a radiant sun he painted | H |
| Which upon mine eyes with splendour glisten'd | I |
| And he made the clouds with golden border | C |
| Through the clouds he let the sunbeams enter | C |
| Painted then the soft and feathery summits | J |
| Of the fresh and quicken'd trees behind them | K |
| One by one with freedom drew the mountains | L |
| Underneath he left no lack of water | C |
| But the river painted so like Nature | C |
| That it seem'd to glitter in the sunbeams | L |
| That it seem'd against its banks to murmur | C |
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| Ah there blossom'd flowers beside the river | C |
| And bright colours gleam'd upon the meadow | M |
| Gold and green and purple and enamell'd | M |
| All like carbuncles and emeralds seeming | B |
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| Bright and clear he added then the heavens | L |
| And the blue tinged mountains far and farther | C |
| So that I as though newborn enraptured | M |
| Gazed on now the painter now the picture | C |
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| Then spake he Although I have convinced thee | A |
| That this art I understand full surely | A |
| Yet the hardest still is left to show thee | A |
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| Thereupon he traced with pointed finger | C |
| And with anxious care upon the forest | M |
| At the utmost verge where the strong sunbeams | L |
| From the shining ground appear'd reflected | M |
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| Traced the figure of a lovely maiden | N |
| Fair in form and clad in graceful fashion | N |
| Fresh the cheeks beneath her brown locks' ambush | O |
| And the cheeks possess'd the selfsame colour | C |
| As the finger that had served to paint them | K |
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| Oh thou boy exclaim'd I then what master | C |
| In his school received thee as his pupil | F |
| Teaching thee so truthfully and quickly | A |
| Wisely to begin and well to finish | P |
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| Whilst I still was speaking lo a zephyr | C |
| Softly rose and set the tree tops moving | B |
| Curling all the wavelets on the river | C |
| And the perfect maiden's veil too fill'd it | M |
| And to make my wonderment still greater | C |
| Soon the maiden set her foot in motion | N |
| On she came approaching tow'rd the station | N |
| Where still sat I with my arch instructor | C |
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| As now all yes all thus moved together | C |
| Flowers river trees the veil all moving | B |
| And the gentle foot of that most fair one | N |
| Can ye think that on my rock I linger'd | M |
| Like a rock as though fast chain'd and silent | M |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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