When We're All Alike Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGDGD HIHIEDJD KLKLIDID| I've trudged life's highway up and down | A |
| I've watched the lines of men march by | B |
| I've seen them in the busy town | A |
| And seen them under country sky | B |
| I've talked with toilers in the ranks | C |
| And walked with men whose hands were white | D |
| And learned when closed were stores and banks | C |
| We're nearly all alike at night | D |
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| Just find the wise professor when | E |
| He isn't lost in ancient lore | F |
| And he like many other men | E |
| Romps with his children on the floor | F |
| He puts his gravity aside | G |
| To share in innocent delight | D |
| Stripped of position's pomp and pride | G |
| We're nearly all the same at night | D |
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| Serving a common cause we go | H |
| Unto our separate tasks by day | I |
| And rich or poor or great or low | H |
| Regardless of their place or pay | I |
| Cherish the common dreams of men | E |
| A home where love and peace unite | D |
| We serve the self same end and plan | J |
| We're all alike when it is night | D |
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| Each for his loved ones wants to do | K |
| His utmost Brothers are we all | L |
| When we have run the work day through | K |
| In romping with our children small | L |
| Rich men and poor delight in play | I |
| When care and caste have taken flight | D |
| At home in all we think and say | I |
| We're very much the same at night | D |
Edgar Albert Guest
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