The Big Deeds Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHAA| We are done with little thinking and we're done with little deeds | A |
| We are done with petty conduct and we're done with narrow creeds | A |
| We have grown to men and women and we've noble work to do | B |
| And to day we are a people with a larger point of view | B |
| In a big way we must labor if our Flag shall always fly | C |
| In a big way some must suffer in a big way some must die | C |
| There must be no little dreaming in the visions that we see | D |
| There must be no selfish planning in the joys that are to be | D |
| We have set our faces eastwards to the rising of the sun | E |
| That shall light a better nation and there's big work to be done | E |
| And the petty souls and narrow seeking only selfish gain | F |
| Shall be vanquished by the toilers big enough to suffer pain | F |
| It's a big task we have taken 'tis for others we must fight | G |
| We must see our duty clearly in a white and shining light | G |
| We must quit our little circles where we've moved in little ways | H |
| And work as men and women for the bigger better days | H |
| We must quit our selfish thinking and our narrow views and creeds | A |
| And as people big and splendid We must do the bigger deeds | A |
Edgar Albert Guest
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