The Job Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEED FGFGHDGGD IJIJKDLLD| The job will not make you my boy | A |
| The job will not bring you to fame | B |
| Or riches or honor or joy | A |
| Or add any weight to your name | B |
| You may fail or succeed where you are | C |
| May honestly serve or may rob | D |
| From the start to the end | E |
| Your success will depend | E |
| On just what you make of your job | D |
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| Don't look on the job as the thing | F |
| That shall prove what you're able to do | G |
| The job does no more than to bring | F |
| A chance for promotion to you | G |
| Men have shirked in high places and won | H |
| Very justly the jeers of the mob | D |
| And you'll find it is true | G |
| That it's all up to you | G |
| To say what shall come from the job | D |
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| The job is an incident small | I |
| The thing that's important is man | J |
| The job will not help you at all | I |
| If you won't do the best that you can | J |
| It is you that determines your fate | K |
| You stand with your hand on the knob | D |
| Of fame's doorway to day | L |
| And life asks you to say | L |
| Just what you will make of your job | D |
Edgar Albert Guest
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