The Reason For Work Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBDDECCE FFGAAGHHICCI JJKLLKMMNOON| Some struggle hard for worldly fame | A |
| Some toil to have an honored name | A |
| And some have great ambition | B |
| A few there are who strive that they | C |
| May save the heathen far away | C |
| Which is a noble mission | B |
| Still others work for riches vast | D |
| To have enough when youth is past | D |
| For charitable giving | E |
| Yet millions of us work by day | C |
| And this our object is alway | C |
| To make a decent living | E |
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| This is the secret of our toil | F |
| For this we burn the midnight oil | F |
| For this the rhymester sings | G |
| 'T is want that spurs us on not fame | A |
| 'T is hunger not a world wide name | A |
| The need of worldly things | G |
| Though fame may come in after years | H |
| And in his ears may ring the cheers | H |
| And plaudits of the crowd | I |
| 'T is not for them man toils today | C |
| But that his wife and babies may | C |
| Be decently endowed | I |
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| That he may have enough to wear | J |
| Enough to eat enough to spare | J |
| To give to those in need | K |
| Is after all man's purpose true | L |
| 'T is all the good man hopes to do | L |
| For more than that is greed | K |
| The greatest things are done by those | M |
| Who face privation and its woes | M |
| And seek to climb above them | N |
| The men who rise to fame you'll find | O |
| Take thought of first and keep in mind | O |
| The needs of those who love them | N |
Edgar Albert Guest
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