Success Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGHGH IJIJKLKL| Did you see that man riding past | A |
| With shoulders bowed with care | B |
| There s failure in his eyes to last | A |
| And in his heart despair | B |
| He seldom looks to left or right | C |
| He nods but speaks to none | D |
| And he s a man who fought the fight | C |
| God knows how hard and won | D |
| No great review could rouse him now | E |
| No printed lies could sting | F |
| No kindness smooth his knitted brow | E |
| Nor wrong one new line bring | F |
| Through dull dumb days and brooding nights | G |
| From years of storm and stress | H |
| He s riding down from lonely heights | G |
| The Mountains of Success | H |
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| He sees across the darkening land | I |
| The graveyards on the coasts | J |
| He sees the broken columns stand | I |
| Like cold and bitter ghosts | J |
| His world is dead while yet he lives | K |
| Though known in continents | L |
| His camp is where his country gives | K |
| Its pauper monuments | L |
Henry Lawson
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Good poem and rhyming
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