A Song Of Failure Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCEFBFBGHGHCICJ FBFBFK FKLBLBFMFMCCCC| HERE is my hand to you brother | A |
| You of the ruck who have failed | B |
| I too am only another | A |
| Fighter who faltered and quailed | B |
| Now with my courage for token | C |
| Here to grim Fate I give tithe | D |
| I too am beaten and broken | C |
| Lying the swath of the scythe | E |
| We to the conquerors' seeming | F |
| Crouch an incongruous horde | B |
| Fighters enmeshed in their dreaming | F |
| Dreamers who girl on the sword | B |
| Weaklings with splendid ambitions | G |
| Heroes who learnt to succumb | H |
| Poets a swoon in their visions | G |
| Singers with ecstasy dumb | H |
| Failed So we cast off our burden | C |
| Done with our doubts and our fears | I |
| These we have won for our guerdon | C |
| Pity and tears women's tears | J |
| You with your conquests unending | F |
| Dwell from a woman apart | B |
| Only the humble and bending | F |
| Learn the low door to her heart | B |
| We that lie dumb in your scorning | F |
| Made you the heroes you are | K |
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| Built you a road to the morning | F |
| Taught you to reach for a star | K |
| We have had sight of the glory | L |
| Pointed it clear to the blind | B |
| Yours is the conquerors' story | L |
| Ours is the vision you find | B |
| Here is no dread and no grieving | F |
| Over us hurtles the fray | M |
| Is yours a Heav'n worth achieving | F |
| If it be stormed in a day | M |
| Here is this world we must live in | C |
| Little to lose or to gain | C |
| More is it worth to have striven | C |
| Than in the end to attain | C |
Arthur Henry Adams
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