The Master Of The Grange Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAB CDCECF GHGHGH CICICI JKJKJK LELELE MEMEME NONONO PQPRPS CCCCCC TUTUTUThe type of enterprise is he | A |
Of sense and thrift and toil | B |
Who reckons less on pedigree | A |
Than rich productive soil | B |
And no blue blood if such there be | A |
His veins can ever spoil | B |
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And yet on blood his heart is set | C |
He has his sacred cow | D |
Some Alderney or Jersey pet | C |
The mistress of the mow | E |
His favorite pig is by brevet | C |
Lord Suffolk of the slough | F |
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To points of stock is he alive | G |
As keenest cattle king | H |
A thoroughbred he deigns to drive | G |
But not a mongrel thing | H |
The very bees within his hive | G |
Are crossed without a sting | H |
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If apple boughs drop pumpkins and | C |
Tomatoes grow on trees | I |
It is because his grafting hand | C |
Has so diverted these | I |
That alien shoots with native stand | C |
Like twin born Siamese | I |
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No neater farm a nabob owns | J |
Its care his chief employ | K |
To find fertility in bones | J |
And briers to destroy | K |
Where once he lightly skipped the stones | J |
A whistling happy boy | K |
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The ancient plough and awkward flail | L |
He banished long ago | E |
The zigzag fence with ponderous rail | L |
He dares to overthrow | E |
And wields with sinews strong and hale | L |
The latest style of hoe | E |
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The household founded as it were | M |
Upon the Decalogue | E |
He classes with the minister | M |
The rural pedagogue | E |
And as a sort of angel cur | M |
Regards his spotted dog | E |
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His wife reviews the magazines | N |
His children lead the school | O |
He tries a thousand new machines | N |
And keeps his temper cool | O |
But bristles at Kentucky jeans | N |
And her impressive mule | O |
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With Science letting down the bars | P |
Enlightening ignorance | Q |
Enigmas deeper than the stars | P |
He solves as by a glance | R |
And raises cinnamon cigars | P |
From poor tobacco plants | S |
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By no decree of fashion dressed | C |
And busier than Fate | C |
The student farmer keeps abreast | C |
With mighty men of state | C |
And treasures like his Sunday vest | C |
The motto Educate | C |
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Beyond encircling hills of blue | T |
Where I may never range | U |
This monarch in his realm I view | T |
Of title new and strange | U |
And make profound obeisance to | T |
The Master of the Grange | U |
Hattie Howard
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