The Pay Envelope Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC AADDEE FFBBGG BBAAHH| Is it all in the envelope holding your pay | A |
| Is that all you're working for day after day | A |
| Are you getting no more from your toil than the gold | B |
| That little enclosure of paper will hold | B |
| Is that all you're after is that all you seek | C |
| Does that close the deal at the end of the week | C |
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| Is it all in the envelope holding his pay | A |
| Is that all you offer him day after day | A |
| Is that all he wins by his labor from you | D |
| Is that the reward for the best he can do | D |
| Would you say of your men when the week has been turned | E |
| That all they've received is the money they've earned | E |
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| Is it all in the envelope workman and chief | F |
| Then loyalty's days must be fleeting and brief | F |
| If you measure your work by its value in gold | B |
| The sum of your worth by your pay shall be told | B |
| And if something of friendship your men do not find | G |
| Outside of their envelopes you're the wrong kind | G |
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| If all that you offer is silver and gold | B |
| You haven't a man in your plant you can hold | B |
| If all that you're after each week is your pay | A |
| You are doing your work in a short sighted way | A |
| For the bigger rewards it is useless to hope | H |
| If you never can see past the pay envelope | H |
Edgar Albert Guest
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