A Canvas For A Crust Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF CGCGE HEHEHE| Aye Montecelli that's the name | A |
| You may have heard of him perhaps | B |
| Yet though he never savoured fame | A |
| Of those impressionistic chaps | B |
| Monet and Manet and Renoir | C |
| He was the avatar | C |
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| He festered in a Marseilles slum | D |
| A starving genius god inspired | E |
| You'd take him for a lousy bum | D |
| Tho' poetry of paint he lyred | E |
| In dreamy pastels each a gem | F |
| How people laughed at them | F |
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| He peddled paint from bar to bar | C |
| From sordid rags a jewel shone | G |
| A glow of joy and colour far | C |
| From filth of fortune woe begone | G |
| 'Just twenty francs ' he shyly said | E |
| 'To take me drunk to bed ' | - |
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| Of Van Gogh and Cezanne a peer | H |
| In dreams of ecstasy enskied | E |
| A genius and a pioneer | H |
| Poor paralysed and mad he died | E |
| Yet by all who hold Beauty dear | H |
| May he be glorified | E |
Robert Service
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