The Struggle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJHKHK| Life is a struggle for peace | A |
| A longing for rest | B |
| A hope for the battles to cease | A |
| A dream for the best | B |
| And he is not living who stays | C |
| Contented with things | D |
| Unconcerned with the work of the days | C |
| And all that it brings | D |
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| He is dead who sees nothing to change | E |
| No wrong to make right | F |
| Who travels no new way or strange | E |
| In search of the light | F |
| Who never sets out for a goal | G |
| That he sees from afar | H |
| But contents his indifferent soul | G |
| With things as they are | H |
| - | |
| Life isn't rest it is toil | I |
| It is building a dream | J |
| It is tilling a parcel of soil | I |
| Or bridging a stream | J |
| It's pursuing the light of a star | H |
| That but dimly we see | K |
| And in wresting from things as they are | H |
| The joy that should be | K |
Edgar Albert Guest
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