Accomplishment Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH FFII JJKK LLMM NNOO PPHH| HOW is it that masters and science and art | A |
| One spark of intelligence fail to impart | A |
| Unless in that chemical union combined | B |
| Of which the result in one word is a mind | B |
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| A youth may have studied and travelled abroad | C |
| May sing like Apollo and paint like a Claude | C |
| And speak all the languages under the pole | D |
| And have every gift in the world but a soul | D |
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| That drapery wrought by the leisurely fair | E |
| Called patchwork may well to such genius compare | E |
| Wherein every tint of the rainbow appears | F |
| And stars to adorn it are forced from their spheres | F |
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| There glows a bright pattern a sprig or a spot | G |
| 'Twixt cluster of roses full blown and red hot | G |
| Here magnified tulips divided in three | H |
| Alternately shaded with sections of tree | H |
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| But when all is finished this labour of years | F |
| A mass unharmonious unmeaning appears | F |
| 'Tis showy but void of intelligent grace | I |
| It is not a landscape it is not a face | I |
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| 'Tis thus Education so called in our schools | J |
| With costly materials and capital tools | J |
| Sits down to her work if you duly reward her | K |
| And sends it home finished according to order | K |
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| See French and Italian spread out on her lap | L |
| Then Dancing springs up and skips into a gap | L |
| Next Drawing and all its varieties come | M |
| Sewed down in their place by her finger and thumb | M |
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| And then for completing her fanciful robes | N |
| Geography Music the use of the Globes | N |
| c c which match as they will | O |
| Are sown into shape and set down in the bill | O |
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| Thus Science distorted and torn into hits | P |
| Art tortured and frightened half out of her wits | P |
| In portions and patches some light and some shady | H |
| Are stitched up together to make a young lady | H |
Jane Taylor
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