When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEDFGHGIJKJHLFL KMCMWhen 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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