The Wage-slaves Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHIH JKJKLHIG MNMNOHIH PGPGGHIH GFGFFQIH GFGFRQIHIHIH| Oh glorious are the guarded heights | A |
| Where guardian souls abide | B |
| Self exiled from our gross delights | A |
| Above beyond outside | B |
| An ampler arc their spirit swings | C |
| Commands a juster view | D |
| We have their word for all these things | C |
| No doubt their words are true | D |
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| Yet we the bond slaves of our day | E |
| Whom dirt and danger press | F |
| Co heirs of insolence delay | E |
| And leagued unfaithfulness | F |
| Such is our need must seek indeed | G |
| And having found engage | H |
| The men who merely do the work | I |
| For which they draw the wage | H |
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| From forge and farm and mine and bench | J |
| Deck altar outpost lone | K |
| Mill school battalion counter trench | J |
| Rail senate sheepfold throne | K |
| Creation's cry goes up on high | L |
| From age to cheated age | H |
| quot Send us the men who do the work | I |
| quot For which they draw the wage quot | G |
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| Words cannot help nor wit achieve | M |
| Nor e'en the all gifted fool | N |
| Too weak to enter bide or leave | M |
| The lists he cannot rule | N |
| Beneath the sun we count on none | O |
| Our evil to assuage | H |
| Except the men that do the work | I |
| For which they draw the wage | H |
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| When through the Gates of Stress and Strain | P |
| Comes forth the vast Event | G |
| The simple sheer sufficing sane | P |
| Result of labour spent | G |
| They that have wrought the end unthought | G |
| Be neither saint nor sage | H |
| But only men who did the work | I |
| For which they drew the wage | H |
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| Wherefore to these the Fates shall bend | G |
| And all old idle things | F |
| Werefore on these shall Power attend | G |
| Beyond the grip of kings | F |
| Each in his place by right not grace | F |
| Shall rule his heritage | Q |
| The men who simply do the work | I |
| For which they draw the wage | H |
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| Not such as scorn the loitering street | G |
| Or waste to earth its praise | F |
| Their noontide's unreturning heat | G |
| About their morning ways | F |
| But such as dower each mortgaged hour | R |
| Alike with clean courage | Q |
| Even the men who do the work | I |
| For which they draw the wage | H |
| Men like to Gods that do the work | I |
| For which they draw the wage | H |
| Begin continue close that work | I |
| For which they draw the wage | H |
Rudyard Kipling
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