The Vote Of Thanks Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE AFGFHEHE IJKJLEME DNONPEPE| FOR every man who works there are | A |
| A dozen who will let him | B |
| They'll smiling bask within the shade | C |
| The while his duties fret him | B |
| And when his arduous tasks are done | D |
| From out the idle ranks | E |
| There promptly steps a grateful one | D |
| To move a vote of thanks | E |
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| Where more than three foregathered are | A |
| In meeting club or lodge | F |
| Some cheerful soul must do the work | G |
| That all the others dodge | F |
| Some one for all must toil and plan | H |
| Some one the money banks | E |
| For which the shirkers to a man | H |
| Will move a vote of thanks | E |
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| The many spend their hours in ease | I |
| While busy are the few | J |
| The glory of the game they want | K |
| But not its work to do | J |
| Untroubled here on earth they live | L |
| The strength that's in their shanks | E |
| They save to those who toil to give | M |
| A rising vote of thanks | E |
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| Some day when all the work is done | D |
| And rest has settled down | N |
| Perhaps the weary toiler then | O |
| Will wear a golden crown | N |
| Upon his breast may medals flash | P |
| And at the Heavenly banks | E |
| Perhaps they'll even let him cash | P |
| Those rising votes of thanks | E |
Edgar Albert Guest
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