The Plough Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFGHHII IIJJKKII| If you listen you will hear from east to west | A |
| Growing sounds of discontent and deep unrest | A |
| It is just the progress driven plough of God | B |
| Tearing up the well worn custom bounded sod | B |
| Shaping out each old tradition trodden track | C |
| Into furrows fertile furrows rich and black | C |
| Oh what harvests they will yield | D |
| When they widen to a field | D |
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| They will widen they will broaden day by day | E |
| As the Progress driven plough keeps on its way | E |
| It will riddle all the ancient roads that lead | F |
| Into palaces of selfishness and greed | G |
| It will tear away the almshouse and the slum | H |
| That the little homes and garden plots may come | H |
| Yes the gardens green and sweet | I |
| Shall replace the stony street | I |
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| Let the wise man hear the menace that is blent | I |
| In this ever growing sound of discontent | I |
| Let him hear the rising clamour of the race | J |
| That the few shall yield the many larger space | J |
| For the crucial hour is coming when the soil | K |
| Must be given to or taken back by Toil | K |
| Oh that mighty plough of God | I |
| Hear it breaking through the sod | I |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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