His Other Chance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDFGHGHIJIFJCJF KLKLMNMNOJOF| He was down and out and his pluck was gone | A |
| And he said to me in a gloomy way | B |
| 'I've wasted my chances one by one | C |
| And I'm just no good as the people say | B |
| Nothing ahead and my dreams all dust | D |
| Though once there was something I might have been | E |
| But I wasn't game and I broke my trust | D |
| And I wasn't straight and I wasn't clean ' | F |
| 'You're pretty low down ' says I to him | G |
| 'But nobody's holding you there my friend | H |
| Life is a stream where men sink or swim | G |
| And the drifters come to a sorry end | H |
| But there's two of you living and breathing still | I |
| The fellow you are and he's tough to see | J |
| And another chap if you've got the will | I |
| The man that you still have a chance to be ' | F |
| He laughed with scorn 'Is there two of me | J |
| I thought I'd murdered the other one | C |
| I once knew a chap that I hoped to be | J |
| And he was decent but now he's gone ' | F |
| 'Well ' says I 'it may seem to you | K |
| That life has little of joy in store | L |
| But there's always something you still can do | K |
| And there's never a man but can try once more | L |
| 'There are always two to the end of time | M |
| The fellow we are and the future man | N |
| The Lord never meant you should cease to climb | M |
| And you can get up if you think you can | N |
| The fellow you are is a sorry sight | O |
| But you needn't go drifting out to sea | J |
| Get hold of yourself and travel right | O |
| There's a fellow you've still got a chance to be ' | F |
Edgar Albert Guest
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