The Picture Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CDCCD EFEEF GHGGH IJIIJ CCCCC| Above her pearl and rose the heavens lay | A |
| Around her flowers flattered earth with gold | B |
| Or down the path in insolence held sway | A |
| Like cavaliers who ride the king's highway | A |
| Scarlet and buff within a garden old | B |
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| Beyond the hills faint heard through belts of wood | C |
| Bells Sabbath sweet swooned from some far off town | D |
| Gamboge and gold broad sunset colors strewed | C |
| The purple west as if with God imbued | C |
| Her mighty palette Nature there laid down | D |
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| Amid such flowers underneath such skies | E |
| Embodying all life knows of sweet and fair | F |
| She stood love's dreams in girlhood's face and eyes | E |
| Fair as a star that comes to emphasize | E |
| The mingled beauty of the earth and air | F |
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| Behind her seen through vines and orchard trees | G |
| Gray with its twinkling windows like the face | H |
| Of calm old age that sits and dreams at ease | G |
| Porched with old roses haunts of honeybees | G |
| The homestead loomed within a lilied space | H |
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| For whom she waited in the afterglow | I |
| Star eyed and golden 'mid the poppy and rose | J |
| I do not know I do not care to know | I |
| It is enough I keep her picture so | I |
| Hung up like poetry in my life's dull prose | J |
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| A fragrant picture where I still may find | C |
| Her face untouched of sorrow or regret | C |
| Unspoiled of contact ever young and kind | C |
| The spiritual sweetheart of my soul and mind | C |
| She had not been perhaps if we had met | C |
Madison Julius Cawein
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