To Be Of Use Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDECC FCGH IJKCLM NJOEPCQRS| The people I love the best | A |
| jump into work head first | B |
| without dallying in the shallows | C |
| and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight | D |
| They seem to become natives of that element | E |
| the black sleek heads of seals | C |
| bouncing like half submerged balls | C |
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| I love people who harness themselves an ox to a heavy cart | F |
| who pull like water buffalo with massive patience | C |
| who strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward | G |
| who do what has to be done again and again | H |
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| I want to be with people who submerge | I |
| in the task who go into the fields to harvest | J |
| and work in a row and pass the bags along | K |
| who are not parlor generals and field deserters | C |
| but move in a common rhythm | L |
| when the food must come in or the fire be put out | M |
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| The work of the world is common as mud | N |
| Botched it smears the hands crumbles to dust | J |
| But the thing worth doing well done | O |
| has a shape that satisfies clean and evident | E |
| Greek amphoras for wine or oil | P |
| Hopi vases that held corn are put in museums | C |
| but you know they were made to be used | Q |
| The pitcher cries for water to carry | R |
| and a person for work that is real | S |
Marge Piercy
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