Golf Pride Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACAC DEDEFGFG HIJIKCKC ALALCCCCAs a golfer I'm not one who cops the money | A |
I shall always be a member of the dubs | B |
There are times my style is positively funny | A |
I am awkward in my handling of the clubs | B |
I am not a skillful golfer nor a plucky | A |
But this about myself I proudly say | C |
When I win a hole by freaky stroke or lucky | A |
I never claim I played the shot that way | C |
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There are times despite my blundering behavior | D |
When fortune seems to follow at my heels | E |
Now and then I toil supremely in her favor | D |
She lets me pull the rankest sort of steals | E |
She'll give to me the friendliest assistance | F |
I'll jump a ditch at times when I should not | G |
I'll top the ball and get a lot of distance | F |
But I don't claim that's how I played the shot | G |
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I've hooked a ball when just that hook I needed | H |
And wondered how I ever turned the trick | I |
I've thanked my luck for what a friendly tree did | J |
Although my fortune made my rival sick | I |
Sometimes my shots are just as I had planned 'em | K |
The sort of shots which usually I play | C |
But when up to the cup I chance to land 'em | K |
I never claim I played 'em just that way | C |
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There's little in my game that will commend me | A |
I'm not a shark who shoots the course in par | L |
I need good fortune often to befriend me | A |
I have my faults and know just what they are | L |
I play golf in a desperate do or die way | C |
And into traps and trouble oft I stray | C |
But when by chance the breaks are coming my way | C |
I do not claim I played the shots that way | C |
Edgar Albert Guest
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