The Master Of The Grange Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABAB CDCECF GHGHGH CICICI JKJKJK LELELE MEMEME NONONO PQPRPS CCCCCC TUTUTU

The type of enterprise is heA
Of sense and thrift and toilB
Who reckons less on pedigreeA
Than rich productive soilB
And no blue blood if such there beA
His veins can ever spoilB
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And yet on blood his heart is setC
He has his sacred cowD
Some Alderney or Jersey petC
The mistress of the mowE
His favorite pig is by brevetC
Lord Suffolk of the sloughF
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To points of stock is he aliveG
As keenest cattle kingH
A thoroughbred he deigns to driveG
But not a mongrel thingH
The very bees within his hiveG
Are crossed without a stingH
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If apple boughs drop pumpkins andC
Tomatoes grow on treesI
It is because his grafting handC
Has so diverted theseI
That alien shoots with native standC
Like twin born SiameseI
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No neater farm a nabob ownsJ
Its care his chief employK
To find fertility in bonesJ
And briers to destroyK
Where once he lightly skipped the stonesJ
A whistling happy boyK
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The ancient plough and awkward flailL
He banished long agoE
The zigzag fence with ponderous railL
He dares to overthrowE
And wields with sinews strong and haleL
The latest style of hoeE
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The household founded as it wereM
Upon the DecalogueE
He classes with the ministerM
The rural pedagogueE
And as a sort of angel curM
Regards his spotted dogE
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His wife reviews the magazinesN
His children lead the schoolO
He tries a thousand new machinesN
And keeps his temper coolO
But bristles at Kentucky jeansN
And her impressive muleO
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With Science letting down the barsP
Enlightening ignoranceQ
Enigmas deeper than the starsP
He solves as by a glanceR
And raises cinnamon cigarsP
From poor tobacco plantsS
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By no decree of fashion dressedC
And busier than FateC
The student farmer keeps abreastC
With mighty men of stateC
And treasures like his Sunday vestC
The motto EducateC
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Beyond encircling hills of blueT
Where I may never rangeU
This monarch in his realm I viewT
Of title new and strangeU
And make profound obeisance toT
The Master of the GrangeU

Hattie Howard



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