Your Country Needs You Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE AAFFGGHHEE BBIIJKLLFF MMNNAAOOAA| The country needs a man like you | A |
| It has a task for you to do | A |
| It has a job for you to face | B |
| Somewhere for you it has a place | B |
| Not all the slackers dodge the work | C |
| Of service where the cannon lurk | C |
| Not all the slackers on life's stage | D |
| Are boys of military age | D |
| The old the youthful and unfit | E |
| Must also do their little bit | E |
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| The country needs a man like you | A |
| 'Twill suffer if you prove untrue | A |
| What though you cannot bear a gun | F |
| That isn't all that's to be done | F |
| There are a thousand other ways | G |
| To serve your country through the days | G |
| Of trial and the nights of storm | H |
| You need not wear a uniform | H |
| Or with the men in council sit | E |
| To serve the Flag and do your bit | E |
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| Somewhere for you there is a place | B |
| Somewhere you have a task to face | B |
| There's none so helpless or so frail | I |
| That cannot when our foes assail | I |
| In some way help our common cause | J |
| And be deserving of applause | K |
| Behind the Flag we all must be | L |
| Each at his post awake to see | L |
| That in so far as he has striven | F |
| His best was to his country given | F |
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| You can be patient brave and strong | M |
| And not complain when plans go wrong | M |
| You can be cheerful at your toil | N |
| Or till perhaps some patch of soil | N |
| You can encourage others who | A |
| Have heavier greater tasks to do | A |
| You can be loyal not in creed | O |
| Alone but in each thought and deed | O |
| You can make sacrifices too | A |
| The country needs a man like you | A |
Edgar Albert Guest
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