The Royal Way Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDEC FGGF HBBH IJJI BKKB LMML NOON| Perfection ever is the price of toil | A |
| Of marchings long and hardships by the way | B |
| Of burdens borne oft in the heat of day | B |
| 'Tis then as right the victor claims the spoil | A |
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| The world admires the wreath upon his brow | C |
| But he alone can tell how much it cost | D |
| And how to gain it he had all things lost | E |
| Results men see but not the when or how | C |
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| The stately elm which rears its head so high | F |
| And spreads abroad so gracefully its boughs | G |
| Beneath which may repose a herd of cows | G |
| Grows under ground as well as toward the sky | F |
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| The bridge which spans the swiftly flowing stream | H |
| O'er which the iron horse by night and day | B |
| With heavy tread speeds on its busy way | B |
| Rests not on sand nor slender post and beam | H |
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| Below the shifting sand on solid rock | I |
| The mason safely laid the buttress stone | J |
| And labored long before his work was shown | J |
| But he built well his work endures each shock | I |
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| This work takes time we chafe at the delay | B |
| And try to gain the summit at a bound | K |
| But find full soon our hopes dashed to the ground | K |
| Yet there remains for all the royal way | B |
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| And he who would true eminence attain | L |
| Must heed the word of Him who came to serve | M |
| Nor from this path a single moment swerve | M |
| If he the great reward would surely gain | L |
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| This is the royal way to serve in love | N |
| Servant to servants ever aim to be | O |
| Like Him who gave His life to ransom thee | O |
| Then shalt thou sit with Him on throne above | N |
Joseph Horatio Chant
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