Other's Successes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFDGHIHI JKJJLMLN| CAN you go to another who wins in the fight | A |
| And give him a hand shake that 's true | B |
| Do you find yourself feeling a sense of delight | A |
| In the good work another may do | B |
| Or deep in your heart are there envy and hate | C |
| When you see someone getting ahead | D |
| Do you sneer at his luck and rail at your fate | C |
| If you do all your courage has fled | D |
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| If you haven't learned to rejoice in the deed | E |
| Of your brothers and give them a cheer | F |
| You haven't discovered the pathways that lead | D |
| To genuine happiness here | G |
| If you cannot say to a brother ' I 'm glad | H |
| You have conquered ' and give him your hand | I |
| Your life must be gloomy and woefully sad | H |
| You 're building your mansion on sand | I |
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| Did you secretly gloat when another had failed | J |
| Did you sneer at the efforts he made | K |
| Did it inwardly please you to see him assailed | J |
| Did you chuckle to see him outplayed | J |
| If this is the part you have chosen to play | L |
| If you are as selfish as this | M |
| Though he falls in the thick and the heat of the fray | L |
| Your failure is greater than his | N |
Edgar Albert Guest
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Saima: very nice poem i love this poem a lot i was having this chapter is my english textbook
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