For The Man Who Fails Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEF GHGHIJIJ KLKLMNMN IOIPQRQR| The world is a snob and the man who wins | A |
| Is the chap for its money's worth | B |
| And the lust for success causes half of the sins | A |
| That are cursing this brave old earth | B |
| For it 's fine to go up and the world's applause | C |
| Is sweet to the mortal ear | D |
| But the man who fails in a noble cause | E |
| Is a hero that 's no less dear | F |
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| 'T is true enough that the laurel crown | G |
| Twines but for the victor's brow | H |
| For many a hero has lain him down | G |
| With naught but the cypress bough | H |
| There are gallant men in the losing fight | I |
| And as gallant deeds are done | J |
| As ever graced the captured height | I |
| Or the battle grandly won | J |
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| We sit at life's board with our nerves highstrung | K |
| And we play for the stake of Fame | L |
| And our odes are sung and our banners hung | K |
| For the man who wins the game | L |
| But I have a song of another kind | M |
| Than breathes in these fame wrought gales | N |
| An ode to the noble heart and mind | M |
| Of the gallant man who fails | N |
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| The man who is strong to fight his fight | I |
| And whose will no front can daunt | O |
| If the truth be truth and the right be right | I |
| Is the man that the ages want | P |
| Tho' he fail and die in grim defeat | Q |
| Yet he has not fled the strife | R |
| And the house of Earth will seem more sweet | Q |
| For the perfume of his life | R |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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