Success Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCCA DEDEEFFD GHGHHIID JKJKKLMN OPQPRAAO| As we gaze up life's slope as we gaze | A |
| In the morn ere the dewdrops are dry | B |
| What splendour hangs over the ways | A |
| What glory gleams there in the sky | B |
| What pleasures seem waiting us high | B |
| On the peak of that beauteous slope | C |
| What rainbow hued colours of hope | C |
| As we gaze | A |
| - | |
| As we climb up the hill as we climb | D |
| Our hearts our illusions are rent | E |
| For Fate who is spouse of old Time | D |
| Is jealous of youth and content | E |
| With brows that are brooding and bent | E |
| She shadows our sunlight of gold | F |
| And the way grows lonely and cold | F |
| As we climb | D |
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| As we toil on through trouble and pain | G |
| There are hands that will shelter and feed | H |
| But once let us dare to ATTAIN | G |
| They will bruise our bare hearts till they bleed | H |
| 'Tis the worst of all crimes to succeed | H |
| Know this as ye feast on a crust | I |
| Know this in the darkness and dust | I |
| Ye who climb | D |
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| As we stand on the heights of success | J |
| Lo success seems as sad as defeat | K |
| Through the lives we may succour and bless | J |
| Alone may its litter turn sweet | K |
| And the world lying there at our feet | K |
| With its cavilling praise and its sneer | L |
| We must pity condone but not hear | M |
| Where we stand | N |
| - | |
| As we live on those heights we must live | O |
| With the courage and pride of a god | P |
| For the world it has nothing to give | Q |
| But the scourge of the lash and the rod | P |
| Our thoughts must be noble and broad | R |
| Our purpose must challenge men's gaze | A |
| While we seek not their blame or their praise | A |
| As we live | O |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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