Mary Gardiner Horsford

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Mona Lisa Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFAF GHGH GIJI GKLK MNON GCPC GJQJ RKSK TUGU PVPV WXGX

Leonardo da Vinci is said to have been four years employed upon the portrait of Mona Lisa a fair Florentine without being able to come up to the idea of her beautyA
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Artist lay the brush asideB
Twilight gathers chill and grayC
Turn the picture to the wallD
Thou hast wrought in vain to dayC
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Thrice twelve months have hastened byE
Since thy canvas first grew brightF
With that brow's bewitching beautyA
And that dark eye's melting lightF
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But the early morning shinethG
On thy tireless labors yetH
And the portrait stands before theeG
Till the evening sun has setH
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Faultless is the robe that fallethG
Round that form of matchless graceI
Faultless is the softened outlineJ
Of the fair and oval faceI
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Thou hast caught the wondrous beautyG
Of the round cheek's roseate hueK
And the full red lips are smilingL
As this morn they smiled on youK
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To that Lady thou hast givenM
Immortality belowN
Wherefore then with moody glancesO
Dost thou from thy labor goN
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From the living face of beautyG
Beams the soul's expressive rayC
And with all thy god like geniusP
This thou never canst portrayC
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Of the countless throng around meG
Each hath labors like to thineJ
Each methinks some Mona LisaQ
In his spirit's inmost shrineJ
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Visions haunt us from our childhoodR
Of a love so pure so trueK
Time and tears and care and anguishS
Leave it steadfast fair and newK
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Visions that elude for everT
As the silent years departU
Some unhappy ones and wearyG
Mona Lisas of the heartU
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Gleams of that divine completenessP
God's angelic ones attainV
Pass amid our toils before usP
And we emulate in vainV
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Poet fancies crowd the spiritW
We would print upon the scrollX
But that perfect utterance failethG
Mona Lisas of the soulX

Mary Gardiner Horsford



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