The Lucky Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC DD EE FF B GG HH HH II JJ| Luck had a favor to bestow | A |
| And wondered where to let it go | A |
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| 'No lazy man on earth ' said she | B |
| 'Shall get this happy gift from me | B |
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| 'I will not pass it to the man | C |
| Who will not do the best he can | C |
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| 'I will not make this splendid gift | D |
| To one who has not practiced thrift | D |
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| 'It shall not benefit deceit | E |
| Nor help the man who's played the cheat | E |
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| 'He that has failed to fight with pluck | F |
| Shall never know the Goddess Luck | F |
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| 'I'll look around a bit to see | B |
| What man has earned some help from me ' | - |
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| She found a man whose hands were soiled | G |
| Because from day to day he'd toiled | G |
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| He'd dreamed by night and worked by day | H |
| To make life's contest go his way | H |
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| He'd kept his post and daily slaved | H |
| And something of his wage he'd saved | H |
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| He'd clutched at every circumstance | I |
| Which might have been his golden chance | I |
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| The goddess smiled and then kerslap | J |
| She dropped her favor in his lap | J |
Edgar Albert Guest
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