Hard Work Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGDGD HIHIJDJ KLKLMDMD| One day in ages dark and dim | A |
| A toiler weary worn and faint | B |
| Who found his task too much for him | A |
| Gave voice unto a sad complaint | B |
| And seeking emphasis to give | C |
| Unto his trials day ill starred | D |
| Coupled to 'work' this adjective | C |
| This little word of terror Hard | D |
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| And from that day to this has work | E |
| Its frightening description worrn | F |
| 'Tis spoken daily by the shirk | E |
| The first cloud on the sky at morn | F |
| To day when there are tasks to do | G |
| Save that we keep ourselves on guard | D |
| With fearful doublings them we view | G |
| And think and speak of them as hard | D |
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| That little but ill chosen word | H |
| Has wrought great havoc with men's souls | I |
| Has chilled the hearts ambition stirred | H |
| And held the pass to splendid goals | I |
| Great dreams have faded and been lost | J |
| Fine youth by it been sadly marred | D |
| As plants beneath a withering frost | J |
| Because men thought and whispered 'Hard ' | - |
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| Let's think of work in terms of hope | K |
| And speak of it with words of praise | L |
| And tell the joy it is to grope | K |
| Along the new untrodden ways | L |
| Let's break this habit of despair | M |
| And cheerfully our task regard | D |
| The road to happiness lies there | M |
| Why think or speak of it as hard | D |
Edgar Albert Guest
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