Lines On The Portrait Of A Celebrated Publisher Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEBGBGBEHEEIJJ KKKKKLKGBEBEMKEKBKNO KPEGBBBBQBRBKENE| A MOONY breadth of virgin face | A |
| By thought unviolated | B |
| A patient mouth to take from scorn | C |
| The hook with bank notes baited | B |
| Its self complacent sleekness shows | D |
| How thrift goes with the fawner | E |
| An unctuous unconcern of all | F |
| Which nice folks call dishonor | E |
| A pleasant print to peddle out | B |
| In lands of rice and cotton | G |
| The model of that face in dough | B |
| Would make the artist's fortune | G |
| For Fame to thee has come unsought | B |
| While others vainly woo her | E |
| In proof how mean a thing can make | H |
| A great man of its doer | E |
| To whom shall men thyself compare | E |
| Since common models fail 'em | I |
| Save classic goose of ancient Rome | J |
| Or sacred ass of Balaam | J |
| The gabble of that wakeful goose | K |
| Saved Rome from sack of Brennus | K |
| The braying of the prophet's ass | K |
| Betrayed the angel's menace | K |
| So when Guy Fawkes in petticoats | K |
| And azure tinted hose on | L |
| Was twisting from thy love lorn sheets | K |
| The slow match of explosion | G |
| An earthquake blast that would have tossed | B |
| The Union as a feather | E |
| Thy instinct saved a perilled land | B |
| And perilled purse together | E |
| Just think of Carolina's sage | M |
| Sent whirling like a Dervis | K |
| Of Quattlebum in middle air | E |
| Performing strange drill service | K |
| Doomed like Assyria's lord of old | B |
| Who fell before the Jewess | K |
| Or sad Abimelech to sigh | N |
| 'Alas a woman slew us ' | O |
| Thou saw'st beneath a fair disguise | K |
| The danger darkly lurking | P |
| And maiden bodice dreaded more | E |
| Than warrior's steel wrought jerkin | G |
| How keen to scent the hidden plot | B |
| How prompt wert thou to balk it | B |
| With patriot zeal and pedler thrift | B |
| For country and for pocket | B |
| Thy likeness here is doubtless well | Q |
| But higher honor's due it | B |
| On auction block and negro jail | R |
| Admiring eyes should view it | B |
| Or hung aloft it well might grace | K |
| The nation's senate chamber | E |
| A greedy Northern bottle fly | N |
| Preserved in Slavery's amber | E |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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