where it needs to. In the first eight lines, sense-units overshoot line endings to suggest the sitter's pain chafing against the painter's art, while the two couplets beginning 'but' describe its instruments with appropriate metrical precision. Metre is the 'measure' central to all artistic composition: 'loss' and 'gloss' is not a paradox, but a full rhyme. [by Dick Davis]
Portrait Painter
from The Times Literary Supplement: Poem of the Week: Portrait Painter
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