Strength Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH| Who is the strong Not he who puts to test | A |
| His sinews with the strong and proves the best | A |
| But he who dwells where weaklings congregate | B |
| And never lets his splendid strength abate | B |
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| Who is the good Not he who walks each day | C |
| With moral men along the high clean way | C |
| But he who jostles gilded sin and shame | D |
| Yet will not sell his honour or his name | D |
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| Who is the wise Not he who from the start | E |
| With Wisdom's followers has taken part | E |
| But he who looks in Folly's tempting eyes | F |
| And turns away perceiving her disguise | F |
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| Who is serene Not he who flees his kind | G |
| Some mountain fastness or some cave to find | G |
| But he who in the city's noisiest scene | H |
| Keeps calm within he only is serene | H |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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