The Real Successes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGBGB EHEHABAB IJIJKBKB ALALIJIJ| You think that the failures are many | A |
| You think the successes are few | B |
| But you judge by the rule of the penny | A |
| And not by the good that men do | B |
| You judge men by standards of treasure | C |
| That merely obtain upon earth | D |
| When the brother you're snubbing may measure | C |
| Full length to God's standard of worth | D |
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| The failures are not in the ditches | E |
| The failures are not in the ranks | F |
| They have missed the acquirement of riches | E |
| Their fortunes are not in the banks | F |
| Their virtues are never paraded | G |
| Their worth is not always in view | B |
| But they're fighting their battles unaided | G |
| And fighting them honestly too | B |
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| There are failures to day in high places | E |
| The failures aren't all in the low | H |
| There are rich men with scorn in their faces | E |
| Whose homes are but castles of woe | H |
| The homes that are happy are many | A |
| And numberless fathers are true | B |
| And this is the standard if any | A |
| By which we must judge what men do | B |
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| Wherever loved ones are awaiting | I |
| The toiler to kiss and caress | J |
| Though in Bradstreet's he hasn't a rating | I |
| He still is a splendid success | J |
| If the dear ones who gather about him | K |
| And know what he's striving to do | B |
| Have never a reason to doubt him | K |
| Is he less successful than you | B |
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| You think that the failures are many | A |
| You judge by men's profits in gold | L |
| You judge by the rule of the penny | A |
| In this true success isn't told | L |
| This falsely man's story is telling | I |
| For wealth often brings on distress | J |
| But wherever love brightens a dwelling | I |
| There lives rich or poor a success | J |
Edgar Albert Guest
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