The Old And The New Masters Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST U VVWUAXNTXXYXDZA2B2C2 UXXTD2D2XE2ND2D F2TD2XF2D2XD2XXDG2About suffering about adoration the old masters | A |
Disagree When someone suffers no one else eats | B |
Or walks or opens the window no one breathes | C |
As the sufferers watch the sufferer | D |
In St Sebastian Mourned by St Irene | E |
The flame of one torch is the only light | F |
All the eyes except the maidservant's she weeps | G |
And covers them with a cloth are fixed on the shaft | H |
Set in his chest like a column St Irene's | I |
Hands are spread in the gesture of the Madonna | J |
Revealing accepting what she does not understand | K |
Her hands say Lo Behold | L |
Beside her a monk's hooded head is bowed his hands | M |
Are put together in the work of mourning | N |
It is as if they were still looking at the lance | O |
Piercing the side of Christ nailed on his cross | P |
The same nails pierce all their hands and feet the same | Q |
Thin blood mixed with water trickles from their sides | R |
The taste of vinegar is on every tongue | S |
That gasps My God my God why hast Thou forsaken me | T |
They watch they are the one thing in the world | U |
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So earlier everything is pointed | V |
In van der Goes' Nativity toward the naked | V |
Shining baby like the needle of a compass | W |
The different orders and sizes of the world | U |
The angels like Little People perched in the rafters | A |
Or hovering in mid air like hummingbirds | X |
The shepherds so big and crude so plainly adoring | N |
The medium sized donor his little family | T |
And their big patron saints the Virgin who kneels | X |
Before her child in worship the Magi out in the hills | X |
With their camels they ask directions and have pointed out | Y |
By a man kneeling the true way the ox | X |
And the donkey two heads in the manger | D |
So much greater than a human head who also adore | Z |
Even the offerings a sheaf of wheat | A2 |
A jar and a glass of flowers are absolutely still | B2 |
In natural concentration as they take their part | C2 |
In the salvation of the natural world | U |
The time of the world concentrates | X |
On this one instant far off in the rocks | X |
You can see Mary and Joseph and their donkey | T |
Coming to Bethlehem on the grassy hillside | D2 |
Where their flocks are grazing the shepherds gesticulate | D2 |
In wonder at the star and so many hundreds | X |
Of years in the future the donor his wife | E2 |
And their children are kneeling looking everything | N |
That was or will be in the world is fixed | D2 |
On its small helpless human center | D |
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After a while the masters show the crucifixion | F2 |
In one corner of the canvas the men come to see | T |
What is important see that it is not important | D2 |
The new masters paint a subject as they please | X |
And Veronese is prosecuted by the Inquisition | F2 |
For the dogs playing at the feet of Christ | D2 |
The earth is a planet among galaxies | X |
Later Christ disappears the dogs disappear in abstract | D2 |
Understanding without adoration the last master puts | X |
Colors on canvas a picture of the universe | X |
In which a bright spot somewhere in the corner | D |
Is the small radioactive planet men called Earth | G2 |
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