Not They Who Soar Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBAAABC AABBAC| Not they who soar but they who plod | A |
| Their rugged way unhelped to God | A |
| Are heroes they who higher fare | B |
| And flying fan the upper air | B |
| Miss all the toil that hugs the sod | A |
| 'Tis they whose backs have felt the rod | A |
| Whose feet have pressed the path unshod | A |
| May smile upon defeated care | B |
| Not they who soar | C |
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| High up there are no thorns to prod | A |
| Nor boulders lurking 'neath the clod | A |
| To turn the keenness of the share | B |
| For flight is ever free and rare | B |
| But heroes they the soil who 've trod | A |
| Not they who soar | C |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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