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Old Pictures In Florence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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I	A
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The morn when first it thunders in March	B
The eel in the pond gives a leap they say	C
As I leaned and looked over the aloed arch	B
Of the villa gate this warm March day	C
No flash snapped no dumb thunder rolled	D
In the valley beneath where white and wide	E
And washed by the morning water gold	D
Florence lay out on the mountain side	E
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II	A
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River and bridge and street and square	F
Lay mine as much at my beck and call	G
Through the live translucent bath of air	F
As the sights in a magic crystal ball	G
And of all I saw and of all I praised	H
The most to praise and the best to see	I
Was the startling bell tower Giotto raised	H
But why did it more than startle me	I
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III	A
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Giotto how with that soul of yours	J
Could you play me false who loved you so	K
Some slights if a certain heart endures	J
Yet it feels I would have your fellows know	K
I' faith I perceive not why I should care	F
To break a silence that suits them best	L
But the thing grows somewhat hard to bear	F
When I find a Giotto join the rest	L
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IV	M
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On the arch where olives overhead	N
Print the blue sky with twig and leaf	M
That sharp curled leaf which they never shed	N
'Twixt the aloes I used to lean in chief	M
And mark through the winter afternoons	O
By a gift God grants me now and then	P
In the mild decline of those suns like moons	O
Who walked in Florence besides her men	P
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V	M
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They might chirp and chaffer come and go	K
For pleasure or profit her men alive	M
My business was hardly with them I trow	K
But with empty cells of the human hive	M
With the chapter room the cloister porch	Q
The church's apsis aisle or nave	M
Its crypt one fingers along with a torch	Q
Its face set full for the sun to shave	M
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VI	M
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Wherever a fresco peels and drops	R
Wherever an outline weakens and wanes	S
Till the latest life in the painting stops	R
Stands One whom each fainter pulse tick pains	S
One wishful each scrap should clutch the brick	T
Each tinge not wholly escape the plaster	U
A lion who dies of an ass's kick	T
The wronged great soul of an ancient Master	U
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VII	M
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For oh this world and the wrong it does	V
They are safe in heaven with their backs to it	W
The Michaels and Rafaels you hum and buzz	V
Round the works of you of the little wit	W
Do their eyes contract to the earth's old scope	X
Now that they see God face to face	Y
And have all attained to be poets I hope	X
'Tis their holiday now in any case	Y
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VIII	M
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Much they reck of your praise and you	Z
But the wronged great souls can they be quit	W
Of a world where their work is all to do	Z
Where you style them you of the little wit	W
Old Master This and Early the Other	U
Not dreaming that Old and New are fellows	A2
A younger succeeds to an elder brother	U
Da Vincis derive in good time from Dellos	A2
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IX	A2
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And here where your praise might yield returns	A2
And a handsome word or two give help	B2
Here after your kind the mastiff girns	A2
And the puppy pack of poodles yelp	B2
What not a word for Stefano there	F
Of brow once prominent and starry	M
Called Nature's Ape and the world's despair	F
For his peerless painting See Vasari	F
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X	A2
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There stands the Master Study my friends	A2
What a man's work comes to So he plans it	W
Performs it perfects it makes amends	A2
For the toiling and moiling and then sic transit	W
Happier the thrifty blind folk labour	F
With upturned eye while the hand is busy	M
Not sidling a glance at the coin of their neighbour	F
'Tis looking downward that makes one dizzy	M
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XI	M
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If you knew their work you would deal your dole ''	-
May I take upon me to instruct you	Z
When Greek Art ran and reached the goal	C2
Thus much had the world to boast in fructu	W
The Truth of Man as by God first spoken	D2
Which the actual generations garble	E2
Was re uttered and Soul which Limbs betoken	D2
And Limbs Soul informs made new in marble	E2
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XII	M
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So you saw yourself as you wished you were	F
As you might have been as you cannot be	M
Earth here rebuked by Olympus there	F
And grew content in your poor degree	M
With your little power by those statues' godhead	W
And your little scope by their eyes' full sway	C
And your little grace by their grace embodied	W
And your little date by their forms that stay	C
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XIII	M
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You would fain be kinglier say than I am	F2
Even so you will not sit like Theseus	M
You would prove a model The Son of Priam	F2
Has yet the advantage in arms' and knees' use	M
You're wroth can you slay your snake like Apollo	K
You're grieved still Niobe's the grander	F
You live there's the Racers' frieze to follow	K
You die there's the dying Alexander	F
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XIV	M
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So testing your weakness by their strength	G2
Your meagre charms by their rounded beauty	M
Measured by Art in your breadth and length	G2
You learned to submit is a mortal's duty	M
When I say you'' 'tis the common soul	C2
The collective I mean the race of Man	D2
That receives life in parts to live in a whole	C2
And grow here according to God's clear plan	D2
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XV	M
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Growth came when looking your last on them all	G
You turned your eyes inwardly one fine day	C
And cried with a start What if we so small	G
Be greater and grander the while than they	C
Are they perfect of lineament perfect of stature	F
In both of such lower types are we	M
Precisely because of our wider nature	F
For time theirs ours for eternity	M
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XVI	M
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To day's brief passion limits their range	H2
It seethes with the morrow for us and more	F
They are perfect how else they shall never change	H2
We are faulty why not we have time in store	F
The Artificer's hand is not arrested	W
With us we are rough hewn nowise polished	W
They stand for our copy and once invested	W
With all they can teach we shall see them abolished	W
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XVII	M
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'Tis a life long toil till our lump be leaven	D2
The better What's come to perfection perishes	M
Things learned on earth we shall practise in heaven	D2
Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes	M
Thyself shalt afford the example Giotto	W
Thy one work not to decrease or diminish	I2
Done at a stroke was just was it not O ''	-
Thy great Campanile is still to finish	I2
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XVIII	M
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Is it true that we are now and shall be hereafter	F
But what and where depend on life's minute	W
Hails heavenly cheer or infernal laughter	F
Our first step out of the gulf or in it	W
Shall Man such step within his endeavour	F
Man's face have no more play and action	D2
Than joy which is crystallized for ever	F
Or grief an eternal petrifaction	D2
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XIX	M
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On which I conclude that the early painters	M
To cries of Greek Art and what more wish you ''	-
Replied To become now self acquainters	M
And paint man man whatever the issue	M
Make new hopes shine through the flesh they fray	C
New fears aggrandize the rags and tatters	M
To bring the invisible full into play	C
Let the visible go to the dogs what matters ''	-
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XX	M
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Give these I exhort you their guerdon and glory	M
For daring so much before they well did it	W
The first of the new in our race's story	M
Beats the last of the old 'tis no idle quiddit	W
The worthies began a revolution	D2
Which if on earth you intend to acknowledge	J2
Why honour them now ends my allocution	D2
Nor confer your degree when the folk leave college	J2
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XXI	M
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There's a fancy some lean to and others hate	W
That when this life is ended begins	M
New work for the soul in another state	W
Where it strives and gets weary loses and wins	M
Where the strong and the weak this world's congeries	M
Repeat in large what they practised in small	G
Through life after life in unlimited series	M
Only the scale's to be changed that's all	G
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XXII	M
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Yet I hardly know When a soul has seen	D2
By the means of Evil that Good is best	W
And through earth and its noise what is heaven's serene	D2
When our faith in the same has stood the test	W
Why the child grown man you burn the rod	W
The uses of labour are surely done	D2
There remaineth a rest for the people of God	W
And I have had troubles enough for one	D2
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XXIII	M
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But at any rate I ha	K2