Success Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCCA DEDEEFFD GHGHHIID JKJKKLMN OPQPRAAOAs 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 |
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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 |
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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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