Sargent's Portrait Of Edwin Booth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDFGHGHIJIJKLKL| That face which no man ever saw | A |
| And from his memory banished quite | B |
| With eyes in which are Hamlet's awe | C |
| And Cardinal Richelieu's subtle light | B |
| Looks from this frame A master's hand | D |
| Has set the master player here | E |
| In the fair temple that he planned | D |
| Not for himself To us most dear | F |
| This image of him It was thus | G |
| He looked such pallor touched his cheek | H |
| With that same grace he greeted us | G |
| Nay 't is the man could it but speak | H |
| Sad words that shall be said some day | I |
| Far fall the day O cruel Time | J |
| Whose breath sweeps mortal things away | I |
| Spare long this image of his prime | J |
| That others standing in the place | K |
| Where save as ghosts we come no more | L |
| May know what sweet majestic face | K |
| The gentle Prince of Players wore | L |
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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