Dedication Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH AIAIJKJK| In youth I longed to paint | A |
| The loveliness I saw | B |
| And yet by dire constraint | A |
| I had to study Law | B |
| But now all that is past | C |
| And I have no regret | D |
| For I am free at last | C |
| Law to forget | D |
| - | |
| To beauty newly born | E |
| With brush and tube I play | F |
| And though my daubs you scorn | E |
| I'll learn to paint some day | F |
| When I am eighty old | G |
| Maybe I'll better them | H |
| And you may yet behold | G |
| A gem | H |
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| Old Renoir used to paint | A |
| Brush strapped to palsied hand | I |
| His fervour of a saint | A |
| How I can understand | I |
| My joy is my reward | J |
| And though you gently smile | K |
| Grant me to fumble Lord | J |
| A little while | K |
Robert William Service
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