There Are No Gods! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFDDDDGHGH IJIJ| There are no gods that bring to youth | A |
| The rich rewards that stalwarts claim | B |
| The god of fortune is in truth | A |
| A vision and an empty name | B |
| The toiler who through doubt and care | C |
| Unto his goal and victory plods | D |
| With no one need his glory share | C |
| He is himself his favoring gods | D |
| There are no gods that will bestow | E |
| Earth's joys and blessings on a man | F |
| Each one must choose the path he'll go | E |
| Then win from it what joy he can | F |
| And he that battles with the odds | D |
| Shall know success but he who waits | D |
| The favors of the mystic gods | D |
| Shall never come to glory's gates | D |
| No man is greater than his will | G |
| No gods to him will lend a hand | H |
| Upon his courage and his skill | G |
| The record of his life must stand | H |
| What honors shall befall to him | I |
| What he shall claim of fame or pelf | J |
| Depend not on the favoring whim | I |
| Of fortune's god but on himself | J |
Edgar Albert Guest
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