Keep A-pluggin' Away Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBCEEEC FGCHGCIIIC JKCLKCCCCC AMCNMCOOOC| I 've a humble little motto | A |
| That is homely though it 's true | B |
| Keep a pluggin' away | C |
| It's a thing when I 've an object | D |
| That I always try to do | B |
| Keep a pluggin' away | C |
| When you 've rising storms to quell | E |
| When opposing waters swell | E |
| It will never fail to tell | E |
| Keep a pluggin' away | C |
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| If the hills are high before | F |
| And the paths are hard to climb | G |
| Keep a pluggin' away | C |
| And remember that successes | H |
| Come to him who bides his time | G |
| Keep a pluggin' away | C |
| From the greatest to the least | I |
| None are from the rule released | I |
| Be thou toiler poet priest | I |
| Keep a pluggin' away | C |
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| Delve away beneath the surface | J |
| There is treasure farther down | K |
| Keep a pluggin' away | C |
| Let the rain come down in torrents | L |
| Let the threat'ning heavens frown | K |
| Keep a pluggin' away | C |
| When the clouds have rolled away | C |
| There will come a brighter day | C |
| All your labor to repay | C |
| Keep a pluggin' away | C |
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| There 'll be lots of sneers to swallow | A |
| There 'll be lots of pain to bear | M |
| Keep a pluggin' away | C |
| If you 've got your eye on heaven | N |
| Some bright day you 'll wake up there | M |
| Keep a pluggin' away | C |
| Perseverance still is king | O |
| Time its sure reward will bring | O |
| Work and wait unwearying | O |
| Keep a pluggin' away | C |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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