When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEDFGHGIJKJHLFL KMCM| When Earth's last picture is painted | A |
| And the tubes are twisted and dried | B |
| When the oldest colors have faded | A |
| And the youngest critic has died | B |
| We shall rest and faith we shall need it | C |
| Lie down for an aeon or two | D |
| 'Till the Master of all good workmen | E |
| Shall put us to work anew | D |
| And those that were good shall be happy | F |
| They'll sit in a golden chair | G |
| They'll splash at a ten league canvas | H |
| With brushes of comet's hair | G |
| They'll find real saints to draw from | I |
| Magdalene Peter and Paul | J |
| They'll work for an age at a sitting | K |
| And never be tired at all | J |
| And only the Master shall praise us | H |
| And only the Master shall blame | L |
| And no one will work for the money | F |
| No one will work for the fame | L |
| But each for the joy of the working | K |
| And each in his separate star | M |
| Will draw the thing as he sees it | C |
| For the God of things as they are | M |
Rudyard Kipling
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