Musée Des Beaux Arts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADEDBFGFGE HHIJKKIL M| About suffering they were never wrong | A |
| The Old Masters how well they understood | B |
| Its human position how it takes place | C |
| While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along | A |
| How when the aged are reverently passionately waiting | D |
| For the miraculous birth there always must be | E |
| Children who did not specially want it to happen skating | D |
| On a pond at the edge of the wood | B |
| They never forgot | F |
| That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course | G |
| Anyhow in a corner some untidy spot | F |
| Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse | G |
| Scratches its innocent behind on a tree | E |
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| In Breughel's Icarus for instance how everything turns away | H |
| Quite leisurely from the disaster the ploughman may | H |
| Have heard the splash the forsaken cry | I |
| But for him it was not an important failure the sun shone | J |
| As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green | K |
| Water and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen | K |
| Something amazing a boy falling out of the sky | I |
| had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on | L |
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| View Breughel's Fall of Icarus | M |
W. H. Auden
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