Hide Their Scars! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEGHIHI JEJEKFKF ELMLNENE| A painter high in worldy fame | A |
| Was sought to reproduce by art | B |
| A likeness of the man whose name | A |
| Sent darts of anguish through the heart | B |
| Of mighty monarchs in his day | C |
| For he by arms subdued the world | D |
| Kingdoms and empires owned his sway | C |
| And bowed beneath his flag unfurled | D |
| - | |
| But Alexander bore a scar | E |
| Deep marked upon his royal brow | F |
| To paint him thus would greatly mar | E |
| The monarch's beauty as a slough | G |
| Would mar the beauty of a lawn | H |
| Where queenly feet are wont to tread | I |
| Or like the cloud at early dawn | H |
| Which hides some glory 'neath its spread | I |
| - | |
| To leave it out would not be true | J |
| For Alexander bore the scar | E |
| The painter this resolved to do | J |
| Which would be true yet would not mar | E |
| To paint the monarch's head reclined | K |
| With his fore finger on his brow | F |
| And thus much grace with art combined | K |
| Like ornament on vessel's prow | F |
| - | |
| The finger rested on the scar | E |
| As if mere chance had placed it there | L |
| And hid from sight this fruit of war | M |
| And left a likeness true and fair | L |
| So let us try as best we can | N |
| To cover o'er each ugly scar | E |
| Upon the brow of mortal man | N |
| So none may see it near nor far | E |
Joseph Horatio Chant
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