The Scoutmaster Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH| There isn't any pay for you you serve without reward | A |
| The boys who tramp the fields with you but little could afford | A |
| And yet your pay is richer far than those who toil for gold | B |
| For in a dozen different ways your service shall be told | B |
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| You'll read it in the faces of a Troop of growing boys | C |
| You'll read it in the pleasure of a dozen manly joys | C |
| And down the distant future you will surely read it then | D |
| Emblazoned thru the service of a band of loyal men | D |
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| Five years of willing labor and of brothering a Troop | E |
| Five years of trudging highways with the Indian cry and whoop | E |
| Five years of campfires burning not alone for pleasure's sake | F |
| But the future generation which the boys are soon to make | F |
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| They have no gold to give you but when age comes on to you | G |
| They'll give you back the splendid things you taught them how to do | G |
| They'll give you rich contentment and a thrill of honest pride | H |
| And you'll see the nation prosper and you'll all be satisfied | H |
Edgar Albert Guest
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