Self-made Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFGFHIHI JBJBIKIK LBMBNONO| A hundred people I employed | A |
| But when they struck for higher pay | B |
| I was so damnably annoyed | A |
| I told them they could stay away | B |
| I simply shut my business down | C |
| I closed my doors and locked them out | D |
| And now you'll find all round the town | C |
| A lot of idle men about | D |
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| Of course I know it is my loss | E |
| And I their point of view can see | F |
| But I must show them I'm the boss | G |
| And any raise must come from ME | F |
| But when they claim it as a right | H |
| And send their Union leaders round | I |
| Why then by God I'm out to fight | H |
| Or burn my workshop to the ground | I |
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| I've risen from the ranks myself | J |
| By brawn and brain I've made my way | B |
| Had I bet beered and blown my pelf | J |
| I would have been as poor as they | B |
| Had I wed young to thrift's unheed | I |
| I might have been a toiler now | K |
| With rent to pay and kids to feed | I |
| And bloody sweat upon my brow | K |
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| Ah there's the point I might have been | L |
| I might have been as peeved as they | B |
| And know what misery can mean | M |
| And ask like them a raise of pay | B |
| I see myself The telephone | N |
| Had I not been so bloody wise | O |
| A poor old rich man all alone | N |
| Hullo Strike's off I grant the rise | O |
Robert William Service
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