Courage, Courage, Courage! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFF GGDDCC HHEEFFWhen the burden grows heavy and rough is the way | A |
When you falter and slip and it isn't your day | A |
And your best doesn't measure to what is required | B |
When you know in your heart that you're fast growing tired | B |
With the odds all against you there's one thing to do | C |
That is call on your courage and see the thing through | C |
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Who battles for victory ventures defeat | D |
Misfortune is something we all have to meet | D |
Take the loss with the grace you would take in the gain | E |
When things go against you don't whine or complain | E |
Just call on your courage and grin if you can | F |
Though you fail to succeed do not fail as a man | F |
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There are dark days and stormy which come to us all | G |
When about us in ruin our hopes seem to fall | G |
But stand to whatever you happen to meet | D |
We must all drink the bitter as well as the sweet | D |
And the test of your courage is What do you do | C |
In the hour when reverses are coming to you | C |
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Never changed is the battle by curse or regret | H |
Though you whimper and whine still the end must be met | H |
And who fights a good fight though he struggle in vain | E |
Shall have many a vict'ry to pay for his pain | E |
So take your reverses as part of the plan | F |
Which God has devised for creating a man | F |
Edgar Albert Guest
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Mario: Nicely done
Octavain: My father used to quote this all the time.
Fayas Fazil: This poem is about courage example : Do not fail as a man call out courage .
Ahana das: WOW! Very couragious
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