Clinching The Bolt Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEBBFFGG| It needed just an extra turn to make the bolt secure | A |
| A few more minutes on the job and then the work was sure | A |
| But he begrudged the extra turn and when the task was through | B |
| The man was back for more repairs in just a day or two | B |
| Two men there are in every place and one is only fair | C |
| The other gives the extra turn to every bolt that's there | C |
| One man is slip shod in his work and eager to be quit | D |
| The other never leaves a task until he's sure of it | D |
| The difference 'twixt good and bad is not so very much | E |
| A few more minutes at the task an extra turn or touch | E |
| A final test that all is right and yet the men are few | B |
| Who seem to think it worth their while these extra things to do | B |
| The poor man knows as well as does the good man how to work | F |
| But one takes pride in every task the other likes to shirk | F |
| With just as little as he can one seeks his pay to earn | G |
| The good man always gives the bolt that clinching extra turn | G |
Edgar Albert Guest
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