Analysis of If

If you follow another's advice
will you be a winner or a sacrifice?

If you arrange another's cabal
will you be triumphant or patron of gall?

If you attain another's habit
will you be competent or plainly unfit?

If you perform another's burlesque
will you be artistic or an act grotesque?

If you fulfill another's tactic
will you be genuine or empty rubric?

If you festoon another's fashion
will you be a model or weird specimen?

If you achieve another's routine
will you be virtuous or clearly obscene?

If you practice another's approach
will you be unbounded or let walls encroach?

If you heed what another's said
will you be the wiser or simply mislead?