Unimportant Differences Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEGHIHI JKJKLMLM NONOPQPQ| If he is honest kindly true | A |
| And glad to work from day to day | B |
| If when his bit of toil is through | A |
| With children he will stoop to play | B |
| If he does always what he can | C |
| To serve another's time of need | D |
| Then I shall hail him as a man | C |
| And never ask him what's his creed | D |
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| If he respects a woman's name | E |
| And guards her from all thoughtless jeers | F |
| If he is glad to play life's game | E |
| And not risk all to get the cheers | G |
| If he disdains to win by bluff | H |
| And scorns to gain by shady tricks | I |
| I hold that he is good enough | H |
| Regardless of his politics | I |
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| If he is glad his much to share | J |
| With them who little here possess | K |
| If he will stand by what is fair | J |
| And not desert to claim success | K |
| If he will leave a smile behind | L |
| As he proceeds from place to place | M |
| He has the proper frame of mind | L |
| And I won't stop to ask his race | M |
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| For when at last life's battle ends | N |
| And all the troops are called on high | O |
| We shall discover many friends | N |
| That thoughtlessly we journeyed by | O |
| And we shall learn that God above | P |
| Has judged His creatures by their deeds | Q |
| That millions there have won His love | P |
| Who spoke in different tongues and creeds | Q |
Edgar Albert Guest
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