The Final Painting Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEFGHHIJKLHHHMNO PQHRSTH| The white cloud passed over the land | A |
| there is sea always round the land | A |
| the sky is blue always above the cloud | B |
| the cloud in the blue continues to move | C |
| nothing is limited by the canvas or frame | D |
| the white cloud can be pictured like any | E |
| other clouds or like a fist of wool | F |
| or a white fur rose | G |
| The white cloud passes a shadow across | H |
| the landscape and so there is a passing greyness | H |
| The grey and the white both envelop | I |
| the watcher until he too is drawn into the picture | J |
| It is all a journey from a room through a door | K |
| down stairs and out into the street | L |
| The cloud could possess the house | H |
| The watchers have a mutual confidence | H |
| with the approaching string of white clouds | H |
| It is beyond spoken words what they are | M |
| silently mouthing to the sky | N |
| There was no mystery in this only the firm | O |
| outline of people in overcoats on a hillside | P |
| and the line of clouds above them | Q |
| The sky is blue The cloud white with touches | H |
| of grey the rest the landscape below | R |
| can be left to the imagination | S |
| The whole painting quietly dissolved itself | T |
| into its surrounding clouds | H |
Lee Harwood
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