The Portrait Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHIH JKJLDMDM| The portrait there above my bed | A |
| They tell me is a work of art | B |
| My Wife since twenty years she's dead | A |
| Her going nearly broke my heart | B |
| Alas No little ones we had | C |
| To light our hearth with joy and glee | D |
| Yet as I linger lone and sad | C |
| I know she's waiting me | D |
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| The picture Sargent painted it | E |
| And it has starred in many a show | F |
| Her eyes are on me where I sit | E |
| And follow me where'er I go | F |
| She'll smile like that when I am gone | G |
| And I am frail and oh so ill | H |
| Aye when I'm waxen cold and wan | I |
| Lo She'll be smiling still | H |
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| So I have bade them slash in strips | J |
| That relic of my paradise | K |
| Let flame destroy those lovely lips | J |
| And char the starlight of her eyes | L |
| No human gaze shall ever see | D |
| Her beauty stranger heart to stir | M |
| Nay her last smile shall be for me | D |
| My last look be for her | M |
Robert Service
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