The Adoration Of The Kings Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEE FGH IJE KLM NOO BFE PQR| From the Nativity | A |
| which I have already celebrated | B |
| the Babe in its Mother's arms | C |
| - | |
| the Wise Men in their stolen | D |
| splendor | E |
| and Joseph and the soldiery | E |
| - | |
| attendant | F |
| with their incredulous faces | G |
| make a scene copied we'll say | H |
| - | |
| from the Italian masters | I |
| but with a difference | J |
| the mastery | E |
| - | |
| of the painting | K |
| and the mind the resourceful mind | L |
| that governed the whole | M |
| - | |
| the alert mind dissatisfied with | N |
| what it is asked to | O |
| and cannot do | O |
| - | |
| accepted the story and painted | B |
| it in the brilliant | F |
| colors of the chronicler | E |
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| the downcast eyes of the Virgin | P |
| as a work of art | Q |
| for profound worship | R |
William Carlos Williams
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