A Toast To Wilkie Collins Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC DDEE FFGG EEHH| FEBRUARY | A |
| - | |
| THE painter's and the poet's fame | B |
| Shed their twinned lustre round his name | B |
| To gild our story teller's art | C |
| Where each in turn must play his part | C |
| - | |
| What scenes from Wilkie's pencil sprung | D |
| The minstrel saw but left unsung | D |
| What shapes the pen of Collins drew | E |
| No painter clad in living hue | E |
| - | |
| But on our artist's shadowy screen | F |
| A stranger miracle is seen | F |
| Than priest unveils or pilgrim seeks | G |
| The poem breathes the picture speaks | G |
| - | |
| And so his double name comes true | E |
| They christened better than they knew | E |
| And Art proclaims him twice her son | H |
| Painter and poet both in one | H |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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