The Better Job Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCD EEFFGG HHIIJJ AAHHC| If I were running a factory | A |
| I'd stick up a sign for all to see | A |
| I'd print it large and I'd nail it high | B |
| On every wall that the men walked by | B |
| And I'd have it carry this sentence clear | C |
| 'The Better Job that you want is here ' | D |
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| It's the common trait of the human race | E |
| To pack up and roam from place to place | E |
| Men have done it for ages and do it now | F |
| Seeking to better themselves somehow | F |
| They quit their posts and their tools they drop | G |
| For a better job in another shop | G |
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| It may be I'm wrong but I hold to this | H |
| That somewhere something must be amiss | H |
| When a man worth while must move away | I |
| For the better job with the better pay | I |
| And something is false in our own renown | J |
| When men can think of a better town | J |
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| So if I were running a factory | A |
| I'd stick up this sign for all to see | A |
| Which never an eye in the place could miss | H |
| 'There isn't a better town than this | H |
| You need not go wandering far or near | C |
| The Better Job that you want is here ' | - |
Edgar Albert Guest
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