A Song Of The Pen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEF GHGH| Not for the love of women toil we we of the craft | A |
| Not for the people's praise | B |
| Only because our goddess made us her own and laughed | A |
| Claiming us all our days | B |
| Claiming our best endeavour body and heart and brain | C |
| Given with no reserve | D |
| Niggard is she towards us granting us little gain | C |
| Still we are proud to serve | D |
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| Not unto us is given choice of the tasks we try | E |
| Gathering grain or chaff | F |
| One of her favoured servants toils at an epic high | E |
| One that a child may laugh | F |
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| Yet if we serve her truly in our appointed place | G |
| Freely she doth accord | H |
| Unto her faithful servants always this saving grace | G |
| Work is its own reward | H |
Banjo Paterson
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