Envy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFF GGHHCC| It's a bigger thing you're doing than the most of us have done | A |
| We have lived the days of pleasure now the gray days have begun | A |
| And upon your manly shoulders fall the burdens of the strife | B |
| Yours must be the sacrifices of the trial time of life | B |
| Oh I don't know how to say it but I'll never think of you | C |
| Without wishing I were sharing in the work you have to do | C |
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| I have never known a moment that was fraught with real care | D |
| Save the hurts and griefs of sorrow that all mortals have to bear | D |
| With the gay and smiling marchers I have tramped on pleasant ways | E |
| And have paid with feeble service for the gladness of my days | E |
| But to you has come a summons yours are days of sacrifice | F |
| And for all life has of sweetness you must pay a bitter price | F |
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| Men have fought and died before me men must fight and die to day | G |
| I have merely taken pleasures for which others had to pay | G |
| I have been a man of laughter there's no path my feet have made | H |
| I have merely been a marcher in life's gaudy dress parade | H |
| But you wear the garb of service you have splendid deeds to do | C |
| You shall sound the depths of manhood and my boy I envy you | C |
Edgar Albert Guest
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