The Man To Be Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEECCFFGGCCHH IICC| Some day the world will need a man of courage in a time of doubt | A |
| And somewhere as a little boy that future hero plays about | A |
| Within some humble home no doubt that instrument of greater things | B |
| Now climbs upon his father's knee or to his mother's garments clings | B |
| And when shall come that call for him to render service that is fine | C |
| He that shall do God's mission here may be your little boy or mine | C |
| Long years of preparation mark the pathway for the splendid souls | D |
| And generations live and die and seem no nearer to their goals | D |
| And yet the purpose of it all the fleeting pleasure and the woe | E |
| The laughter and the grief of life that all who come to earth must know | E |
| May be to pave the way for one one man to serve the Will Divine | C |
| And it is possible that he may be your little boy or mine | C |
| Some day the world will need a man I stand beside his cot at night | F |
| And wonder if I'm teaching him as best I can to know the right | F |
| I am the father of a boy his life is mine to make or mar | G |
| And he no better can become than what my daily teachings are | G |
| There will be need for someone great I dare not falter from the line | C |
| The man that is to serve the world may be that little boy of mine | C |
| Perhaps your boy and mine may not ascend the lofty heights of fame | H |
| The orders for their births are hid We know not why to earth they came | H |
| Yet in some little bed to night the great man of to morrow sleeps | I |
| And only He who sent him here the secret of his purpose keeps | I |
| As fathers then our care is this to keep in mind the Great Design | C |
| The man the world shall need some day may be your little boy or mine | C |
Edgar Albert Guest
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