It Might Have Been Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGHG IJIJ| We will be what we could be Do not say | A |
| It might have been had not or that or this | B |
| No fate can keep us from the chosen way | A |
| He only might who is | C |
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| We will do what we could do Do not dream | D |
| Chance leaves a hero all uncrowned to grieve | E |
| I hold all men are greatly what they seem | D |
| He does who could achieve | E |
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| We will climb where we could climb Tell me not | F |
| Of adverse storms that kept thee from the height | G |
| What eagle ever missed the peak he sought | H |
| He always climbs who might | G |
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| I do not like the phrase It might have been | I |
| It lacks all force and life's best truths perverts | J |
| For I believe we have and reach and win | I |
| Whatever our deserts | J |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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