Improvement Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CDCCD EFEEF EEEEE GCGGC HIHHI JKJJK BLBBL MNMMN OPOOP| Along the avenue I pass | A |
| Huge piles of wood and stone | B |
| And glance at each amorphous mass | A |
| Whose cumbrous weight has crushed the grass | A |
| With half resentful groan | B |
| - | |
| Say I O labor to despoil | C |
| Some lovely forest scene | D |
| Or at the granite stratum toil | C |
| And desecrate whole roods of soil | C |
| Is vandal like and mean | D |
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| Than ever to disfigure thus | E |
| Our prairie garden land | F |
| Let me consort with Cerberus | E |
| Be chained to crags precipitous | E |
| Or seek an alien strand | F |
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| But while this pining pouting Muse | E |
| The interval ignores | E |
| Deft industry no time to lose | E |
| Contrives and carries hoists and hews | E |
| And symmetry restores | E |
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| Behold of rock and pile and board | G |
| A modern miracle | C |
| My neighbor's dwelling roofed and floored | G |
| That rapid grew as Jonah's gourd | G |
| And far more beautiful | C |
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| The artisan's receding gait | H |
| Has brushed the chips away | I |
| Where innocence shall recreate | H |
| Or like the flowers grow and wait | H |
| The balminess of May | I |
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| An arid spot where careless feet | J |
| Have long been wont to roam | K |
| Where cattle grazed as if to eat | J |
| Were life's delicious richest treat | J |
| Becomes a charming home | K |
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| O man primeval hadst thou known | B |
| Ere rude hands scooped thy grave | L |
| Of Homestead Act or Building Loan | B |
| Thou wouldst have quite disdained to own | B |
| A rugged cliff or cave | L |
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| And now I see how skill and art | M |
| May cleave fair nature through | N |
| Disintegrate her breathing heart | M |
| And to the tissues torn impart | M |
| A use and beauty new | N |
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| And this improvement is to turn | O |
| The things which God has given | P |
| To their best purpose as we learn | O |
| To make the place where we sojourn | O |
| Homelike and more like Heaven | P |
Hattie Howard
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