The Portrait Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHIH JKJLDMDMThe 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 William Service
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