A Work Of Artifice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHAIJFAKALMANO PMQR| The bonsai tree | A |
| in the attractive pot | B |
| could have grown eighty feet tall | C |
| on the side of a mountain | D |
| till split by lightning | E |
| But a gardener | F |
| carefully pruned it | G |
| It is nine inches high | H |
| Every day as he | A |
| whittles back the branches | I |
| the gardener croons | J |
| It is your nature | F |
| to be small and cozy | A |
| domestic and weak | K |
| how lucky little tree | A |
| to have a pot to grow in | L |
| With living creatures | M |
| one must begin very early | A |
| to dwarf their growth | N |
| the bound feet | O |
| the crippled brain | P |
| the hair in curlers | M |
| the hands you | Q |
| love to touch | R |
Marge Piercy
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