If We Don't Or If We Do Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCAA AADDEEAA AAFFGGAA AAHHIIAA AAJJKLAA AAMMNNAA| If we don't or if we do | A |
| What's the odds to me and you | A |
| Fame is e'er a heartless jade | B |
| And her slaves are poorly paid | B |
| Weary hearts and soul's distress | C |
| Are the prices of success | C |
| All our stations sadness view | A |
| If we don't or if we do | A |
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| If we don't or if we do | A |
| Our deservings will accrue | A |
| We must pay the fullest price | D |
| For each virtue and each vice | D |
| And each life for every thing | E |
| Must an equal portion bring | E |
| Justice shall our deeds review | A |
| If we don't or if we do | A |
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| If we don't or if we do | A |
| Fortune to our worth is true | A |
| Trophies that enshroud our clay | F |
| Scarce are worth the price we pay | F |
| Shame doth small endeavors share | G |
| Fame and glory toil and care | G |
| Earth floats but an equal crew | A |
| If we don't or if we do | A |
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| If we don't or if we do | A |
| What's the diff'rence 'tween the two | A |
| When our souls have gone to God | H |
| And we sleep beneath the sod | H |
| Kindred grasses wave and creep | I |
| Where the prince and pauper sleep | I |
| We shall have our six feet two | A |
| If we don't or if we do | A |
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| If we don't or if we do | A |
| We but dust and ashes brew | A |
| Labor trouble toil and strife | J |
| Weave within each human life | J |
| Sorrows cloud the younger years | K |
| Age is bowed with cares and tears | L |
| Accidents in fame are few | A |
| If we don't or if we do | A |
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| If we don't or if we do | A |
| Fate to our deserts is true | A |
| If we fail or falter not | M |
| Every life deserves his lot | M |
| Every human small or great | N |
| Buys with current coin his fate | N |
| What's the odds to me and you | A |
| If we don't or if we do | A |
Freeman E. Miller
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