Do Your Best And Leave The Rest. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE AGFGHEIE JKLKLEHE JMJMFEFE| As through life you journey onward | A |
| Many a hill you'll have to climb | B |
| Many a rough and dang'rous pathway | C |
| You'll encounter time and time | B |
| Now and then a gleam of sunshine | D |
| Will bring hope to cheer your breast | E |
| Then press onward ever trusting | F |
| Do your best and leave the rest | E |
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| Though your progress may be hindered | A |
| By false friends or bitter foes | G |
| And the goal for which you're striving | F |
| Seems so far away who knows | G |
| You may yet have strength to reach it | H |
| E'er the sun sinks in the west | E |
| Ever striving still undaunted | I |
| Do your best and leave the rest | E |
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| If you fail as thousands must do | J |
| You will still have cause for pride | K |
| You will have advanced much further | L |
| Than if you had never tried | K |
| Never falter but remember | L |
| Life is not a foolish jest | E |
| You all are in the fight to win it | H |
| Do your best and leave the rest | E |
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| If at last your strength shall fail you | J |
| And your struggles have proved vain | M |
| There is One who will sustain you | J |
| Soothe your sorrow ease your pain | M |
| He has seen your earnest striving | F |
| And your efforts shall be blest | E |
| For He knows that you though failing | F |
| Did your best He'll do the rest | E |
John Hartley
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