Reward Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBDB EFEFGHIH JKJKLBKB| Don't want medals on my breast | A |
| Don't want all the glory | B |
| I'm not worrying greatly lest | A |
| The world won't hear my story | B |
| A chance to dream beside a stream | C |
| Where fish are biting free | B |
| A day or two 'neath skies of blue | D |
| Is joy enough for me | B |
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| I do not ask a hoard of gold | E |
| Nor treasures rich and rare | F |
| I don't want all the joys to hold | E |
| I only want a share | F |
| Just now and then away from men | G |
| And all their haunts of pride | H |
| If I can steal with rod and reel | I |
| I will be satisfied | H |
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| I'll gladly work my way through life | J |
| I would not always play | K |
| I only ask to quit the strife | J |
| For an occasional day | K |
| If I can sneak from toil a week | L |
| To chum with stream and tree | B |
| I'll fish away and smiling say | K |
| That life's been good to me | B |
Edgar Albert Guest
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