The Fight Worth While Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDE FGFGHIHI JKJKFLFL HMHMNFNF| fight worth while on this good old earth | A |
| Isn't the fight for a hoard of gold I | B |
| It isn't the fight to increase your worth | A |
| In stocks and bonds and things to hold | C |
| It isn't the fight for a higher place | D |
| For a meed of power for a little while | E |
| Or to finish first in the grinding race | D |
| And to bask in glory and pomp and style | E |
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| The fight worth while is the fight to be | F |
| Unfettered here by the cords of vice | G |
| To set your soul from your body free | F |
| To be unswerved by a yellow price | G |
| To win the love of your fellowmen | H |
| To be a man that they all respect | I |
| To lose a fight but to fight again | H |
| With your shoulders square and your head erect | I |
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| This is the fight worth while today | J |
| To have ideals and to cling to them | K |
| To live your life in your own good way | J |
| In spite of the scoffers who may condemn | K |
| To be willing to fail if the victory | F |
| Would lower your standard of what is right | L |
| To be poor in purse if you have to be | F |
| But rich in spirit Here is a fight | L |
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| To ask no favors from any man | H |
| To conquer yourself and to face the strife | M |
| With courage born of your own made plan | H |
| To do your best with your term of life | M |
| To shirk no task that you find to do | N |
| However bitter it seems to be | F |
| And at last when the battle of earth is through | N |
| To be ready to die is victory | F |
Edgar Albert Guest
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