I could clearly see that happiness, contentment and peace depended more upon orderliness , thoughtfulness and kindliness than upon genius, spasmodic effort or keeping up appearances,(couldn't I/could I/ can't I) ?(Although /however/because)mother had been wonderfully courageous father could hardly have claimed that virtue.

1.) frame story2.)narrative interruption  3.)internal rhyme 

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The poem is an unconventional sonnet; it develops a main idea in the first twelve lines, and is capped by a big thought in the final couplet. the poem follows a narrator describing the industriousness of nature’s creatures, preparing for the coming spring. all of creation is at work, but the speaker is sullen as the only creature he can see who finds himself without an occupation.