How Do You Tackle Your Work Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGDGD HIHIEDED ACACBDBDJ ABABCDCD EFEFKDKD LMLMDDDD DDDDDDDDHow do you tackle your work each day | A |
Are you scared of the job you find | B |
Do you grapple the task that comes your way | A |
With a confident easy mind | B |
Do you stand right up to the work ahead | C |
Or fearfully pause to view it | D |
Do you start to toil with a sense of dread | C |
Or feel that you're going to do it | D |
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You can do as much as you think you can | E |
But you'll never accomplish more | F |
If you're afraid of yourself young man | E |
There's little for you in store | F |
For failure comes from the inside first | G |
It's there if we only knew it | D |
And you can win though you face the worst | G |
If you feel that you're going to do it | D |
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Success It's found in the soul of you | H |
And not in the realm of luck | I |
The world will furnish the work to do | H |
But you must provide the pluck | I |
You can do whatever you think you can | E |
It's all in the way you view it | D |
It's all in the start you make young man | E |
You must feel that you're going to do it | D |
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How do you tackle your work each day | A |
With confidence clear or dread | C |
What to yourself do you stop and say | A |
When a new task lies ahead | C |
What is the thought that is in your mind | B |
Is fear ever running through it | D |
If so just tackle the next you find | B |
By thinking you're going to do it | D |
From 'A Heap o' Linin' ' by Edgar A Guest | J |
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I tackle my terrible job each day | A |
With a fear that is well defined | B |
And I grapple the task that comes my way | A |
With no confidence in my mind | B |
I try to evade the work ahead | C |
As I fearfully pause to view it | D |
And I start to toil with a sense of dread | C |
And doubt that I'm going to do it | D |
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I can't do as much as I think I can | E |
And I never accomplish more | F |
I am scared to death of myself old man | E |
As I may have observed before | F |
I've read the proverbs of Charley Schwab | K |
Carnegie and Marvin Hughitt | D |
But whenever I tackle a difficult job | K |
O gosh I hate to do it | D |
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I try to believe in my vaunted power | L |
With that confident kind of bluff | M |
But somebody tells me The Conning Tower | L |
Is nothing but awful stuff | M |
And I take up my impotent pen that night | D |
And idly and sadly chew it | D |
As I try to write something merry and bright | D |
And I know that I shall not do it | D |
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And that's how I tackle my work each day | D |
With terror and fear and dread | D |
And all I can see is a long array | D |
Of empty columns ahead | D |
And those are the thoughts that are in my mind | D |
And that's about all there's to it | D |
As long as there's work of whatever kind | D |
I'm certain I cannot do it | D |
Edgar Albert Guest
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