The Tears Of A Painter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFFGGHHIIJKLL MMNNLLOOIIPQ| Apelles hearing that his boy | A |
| Had just expired his only joy | A |
| Although the sight with anguish tore him | B |
| Bade place his dear remains before him | B |
| He seized his brush his colours spread | C |
| And 'Oh my child accept ' he said | C |
| ' 'Tis all that I can now bestow | D |
| This tribute of a father's woe ' | E |
| Then faithful to the twofold part | F |
| Both of his feelings and his art | F |
| He closed his eyes with tender care | G |
| And form'd at once a fellow pair | G |
| His brow with amber locks beset | H |
| And lips he drew not livid yet | H |
| And shaded all that he had done | I |
| To a just image of his son | I |
| Thus far is well But view again | J |
| The cause of thy paternal pain | K |
| Thy melancholy task fulfil | L |
| It needs the last last touches still | L |
| Again his pencil's powers he tries | M |
| For on his lips a smile he spies | M |
| And still his cheek unfaded shows | N |
| The deepest damask of the rose | N |
| Then heedful to the finish d whole | L |
| With fondest eagerness he stole | L |
| Till scarce himself distinctly knew | O |
| The cherub copied from the true | O |
| Now painter cease Thy task is done | I |
| Long lives this image of thy son | I |
| Nor short lived shall thy glory prove | P |
| Or of thy labour or thy love | Q |
William Cowper
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