Selfishness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDED FGFGHIHI JDJDKLKL GMGMLNLN| ne | A |
| Find if you can one victory | A |
| That little minds have ever won | B |
| There is no record there to read | C |
| Of men who fought for self alone | D |
| No instance of a single deed | E |
| Splendor they may proudly own | D |
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| Through all life's story you will find | F |
| The miser with his hoarded gold | G |
| A hermit dreary and unkind | F |
| An outcast from the human fold | G |
| Men hold him up to view with scorn | H |
| A creature by his wealth enslaved | I |
| A spirit craven and forlorn | H |
| Doomed by the money he has saved | I |
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| No man was ever truly great | J |
| Who sought to serve himself alone | D |
| Who put himself above the state | J |
| Above the friends about him thrown | D |
| No man was ever truly glad | K |
| Who risked his joy on hoarded pelf | L |
| And gave of nothing that he had | K |
| Through fear of needing it himself | L |
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| For selfishness is wintry cold | G |
| And bitter are its joys at last | M |
| The very charms it tries to hold | G |
| With woes are quickly overcast | M |
| And only he shall gladly live | L |
| And bravely die when God shall call | N |
| Who gathers but that he may give | L |
| And with his fellows shares his all | N |
Edgar Albert Guest
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