Progress Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBA CDECDE| There is no progress in the world of bees | A |
| However wise and wonderful they are | B |
| Their wisdom makes not increase Lies the bar | B |
| To wider goals in that tense strife to please | A |
| A Sovereign Ruler Forth from flowers to trees | A |
| Their little quest is not from star to star | B |
| This is not growth the mighty avatar | B |
| Comes not to do his work with such as these | A |
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| So in the world of men when legions toil | C |
| To feed a Monarch and begem a crown | D |
| They build before high heaven a narrowing wall | E |
| And the great purpose of Creation spoil | C |
| Not on and upward is the trend but down | D |
| The Race can rise but with the rise of all | E |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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