Most students have their preferences of jobs they’d like to do. 1Unlike those kids, I flounder between one career or two.
2On one hand, I aspire to an Ivy League vocation:
3professor of the sciences in higher education.
4But like noble amphibians that thrive on land and in the stream,
5I’ve got another world of which I like to gladly dream.
6Some say that it’s abnormal; my affections are exclusive.
7In science, they say, emotions are something quite elusive.
8My systematic brain says I can span the two dimensions:
9science book procedures and painting skill conventions.
10Quite flexible, I switch between a microscope and brush;
11I find that others tend to choose and stick with only one.
12That renders me what science calls a special rarity—
13like a fossil that still frolics or an unknown masterpiece—
14Where one wants inspiration, a force that’s quite profound,
15the other needs analysis to prove its facts are sound.
16Teachers say they’ve never met a kid who overlaps
17a love of science with a flair for portraits, arts, and crafts.
18But to me, art seems like science; they are singular; however,
19science, at its best, is quite a beautiful endeavor.
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Identify the poetic form of this passage.
A)It is a sonnet written mostly in quatrains.
B)It is a lyric poem written mostly in quatrains.
C)Is is a sonnet written mostly in rhyming couplets.
D)It is a lyric poem written mostly in rhyming couplets.