Promotion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFG HHGGGGIIJJJJ JJKKJJLLGGMM| Promotion comes to him who sticks | A |
| Unto his work and never kicks | A |
| Who watches neither clock nor sun | B |
| To tell him when his task is done | B |
| Who toils not by a stated chart | C |
| Defining to a jot his part | C |
| But gladly does a little more | D |
| Than he's remunerated for | D |
| The man in factory or shop | E |
| Who rises quickly to the top | E |
| Is he who gives what can't be bought | F |
| Intelligent and careful thought | G |
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| No one can say just when begins | H |
| The service that promotion wins | H |
| Or when it ends 'tis not denned | G |
| By certain hours or any kind | G |
| Of system that has been devised | G |
| Merit cannot be systemized | G |
| It is at work when it's at play | I |
| It serves each minute of the day | I |
| 'Tis always at its post to see | J |
| New ways of help and use to be | J |
| Merit from duty never slinks | J |
| Its cardinal virtue is it thinks | J |
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| Promotion comes to him who tries | J |
| Not solely for a selfish prize | J |
| But day by day and year by year | K |
| Holds his employer's interests dear | K |
| Who measures not by what he earns | J |
| The sum of labor he returns | J |
| Nor counts his day of toiling through | L |
| Till he's done all that he can do | L |
| His strength is not of muscle bred | G |
| But of the heart and of the head | G |
| The man who would the top attain | M |
| Must demonstrate he has a brain | M |
Edgar Albert Guest
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