The Deformed Artist Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHJFKF ALMLNOPO QRSRTOUO QAVAWXYZ A2ZB2ZC2D2E2D2 F2GG2GYH2I2H2 DJ2IJ2XK2L2K2 M2N2O2N2EZP2Z M2Q2R2Q2AJM2J OS2GS2M2ORO| The twilight o'er Italia's sky | A |
| Had spread a shadowy veil | B |
| And one by one the solemn stars | C |
| Looked forth serene and pale | B |
| As quietly the waning light | D |
| Through a high casement stole | E |
| And fell on one with silver hair | F |
| Who shrived a passing soul | E |
| - | |
| No costly pomp or luxury | G |
| Relieved that chamber's gloom | H |
| But glowing forms by limner's art | I |
| Created thronged the room | H |
| And as the low winds carried far | J |
| The chime for evening prayer | F |
| The dying painter's earnest tones | K |
| Fell on the languid air | F |
| - | |
| The spectral form of Death is nigh | A |
| The thread of life is spun | L |
| Ave Maria I have looked | M |
| Upon my latest sun | L |
| And yet 't is not with pale disease | N |
| This frame is worn away | O |
| Nor yet nor yet with length of years | P |
| A child but yesterday | O |
| - | |
| I found within my father's hall | Q |
| No fervent love to claim | R |
| The curse that marked me at my birth | S |
| Devoted me to shame | R |
| I saw that on my brother's brow | T |
| Angelic beauty lay | O |
| The mirror gave me back a form | U |
| That thrilled me with dismay | O |
| - | |
| And soon I learned to shrink from all | Q |
| The lowly and the high | A |
| To see but scorn on every lip | V |
| Contempt in every eye | A |
| And for a time e'en Nature's smile | W |
| A bitter mockery wore | X |
| For beauty stamped each living thing | Y |
| The wide creation o'er | Z |
| - | |
| And I alone was cursed and loathed | A2 |
| 'T was in a garden bower | Z |
| I mused one eve and scalding tears | B2 |
| Fell fast on many a flower | Z |
| And when I rose I marked with awe | C2 |
| And agonizing grief | D2 |
| A frail mimosa at my feet | E2 |
| Fold close each fragile leaf | D2 |
| - | |
| Alas how dark my lot if thus | F2 |
| A plant could shrink from me | G |
| But when I looked again I saw | G2 |
| That from the honey bee | G |
| The falling leaf the bird's gay wing | Y |
| It shrank with pain or fear | H2 |
| A kindred presence I had found | I2 |
| Life waxed sublimely clear | H2 |
| - | |
| I climbed the lofty mountain height | D |
| And communed with the skies | J2 |
| And felt within my grateful heart | I |
| New aspirations rise | J2 |
| Then thirsting for a higher lore | X |
| I left my childhood's home | K2 |
| And stayed not till I gazed upon | L2 |
| The hills of fallen Rome | K2 |
| - | |
| I stood amid the glorious forms | M2 |
| Immortal and divine | N2 |
| The painter's wand had summoned from | O2 |
| The dim Ideal's shrine | N2 |
| And felt within my fevered soul | E |
| Ambition's wasting fire | Z |
| And seized the pencil with a vague | P2 |
| And passionate desire | Z |
| - | |
| To shadow forth with lineaments | M2 |
| Of earth the phantom throng | Q2 |
| That swept before my sight in thought | R2 |
| And lived in storied song | Q2 |
| Vain vain the dream as well might I | A |
| Aspire to light a star | J |
| Or pile the gorgeous sunset clouds | M2 |
| That glitter from afar | J |
| - | |
| The threads of life have worn away | O |
| Discordantly they thrill | S2 |
| And soon the sounding chords will be | G |
| For ever mute and still | S2 |
| And in the spirit land that lies | M2 |
| Beyond so calm and gray | O |
| I shall aspire with truer aim | R |
| Ave Maria pray | O |
Mary Gardiner Horsford
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