Picture Dealer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGFGHIHI BJBJFDFD FDFDKEKE LALAMNMN| There were twin artists A and B | A |
| Who painted pictures two | B |
| And hung them in my galley | A |
| For everyone to view | B |
| The one exhibited by A | C |
| The name A Sphere did bear | D |
| While strangely brother B's display | E |
| Was catalogued A Square | D |
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| Now although A and this is queer | F |
| Could squeeze a pretty tube | G |
| The picture that he called a Sphere | F |
| Was blocky as a cube | G |
| While B though no hint he disclosed | H |
| To pull the public leg | I |
| The Square he placidly exposed | H |
| Was oval as an egg | I |
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| Thought I To sell these pictures two | B |
| I never will be able | J |
| There's only one thing I can do | B |
| That's change around the label | J |
| The rotund one I called a Sphere | F |
| The cornered one a Square | D |
| And yet I thought It's very queer | F |
| Unbought they linger there | D |
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| Then strange as it may well appear | F |
| Derision did I bare | D |
| And blandly dubbed the Square a Sphere | F |
| And tabbed the Sphere a Square | D |
| Behold the answer I had found | K |
| For to my glad dismay | E |
| The curious came crowding round | K |
| A sold the daubs next day | E |
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| Well maybe A and B were right | L |
| Not mugs like you and me | A |
| With something missing in our sight | L |
| That only artists see | A |
| So what it is and what it ain't | M |
| I'll never more discuss | N |
| These guys believe in what they paint | M |
| Or are they spoofing us | N |
Robert William Service
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