How Do You Tackle Your Work Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGDGD HIHIEDED ACACBDBDJ ABABCDCD EFEFKDKD LMLMDDDD DDDDDDDD

How do you tackle your work each dayA
Are you scared of the job you findB
Do you grapple the task that comes your wayA
With a confident easy mindB
Do you stand right up to the work aheadC
Or fearfully pause to view itD
Do you start to toil with a sense of dreadC
Or feel that you're going to do itD
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You can do as much as you think you canE
But you'll never accomplish moreF
If you're afraid of yourself young manE
There's little for you in storeF
For failure comes from the inside firstG
It's there if we only knew itD
And you can win though you face the worstG
If you feel that you're going to do itD
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Success It's found in the soul of youH
And not in the realm of luckI
The world will furnish the work to doH
But you must provide the pluckI
You can do whatever you think you canE
It's all in the way you view itD
It's all in the start you make young manE
You must feel that you're going to do itD
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How do you tackle your work each dayA
With confidence clear or dreadC
What to yourself do you stop and sayA
When a new task lies aheadC
What is the thought that is in your mindB
Is fear ever running through itD
If so just tackle the next you findB
By thinking you're going to do itD
From 'A Heap o' Linin' ' by Edgar A GuestJ
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I tackle my terrible job each dayA
With a fear that is well definedB
And I grapple the task that comes my wayA
With no confidence in my mindB
I try to evade the work aheadC
As I fearfully pause to view itD
And I start to toil with a sense of dreadC
And doubt that I'm going to do itD
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I can't do as much as I think I canE
And I never accomplish moreF
I am scared to death of myself old manE
As I may have observed beforeF
I've read the proverbs of Charley SchwabK
Carnegie and Marvin HughittD
But whenever I tackle a difficult jobK
O gosh I hate to do itD
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I try to believe in my vaunted powerL
With that confident kind of bluffM
But somebody tells me The Conning TowerL
Is nothing but awful stuffM
And I take up my impotent pen that nightD
And idly and sadly chew itD
As I try to write something merry and brightD
And I know that I shall not do itD
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And that's how I tackle my work each dayD
With terror and fear and dreadD
And all I can see is a long arrayD
Of empty columns aheadD
And those are the thoughts that are in my mindD
And that's about all there's to itD
As long as there's work of whatever kindD
I'm certain I cannot do itD

Edgar Albert Guest



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