Success Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CCDDEEAAFF GGHHIIJJAA KLMMNNOOPP QQYou ask me what I call Success | A |
It is I wonder Happiness | B |
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It is not wealth it is not fame | C |
Nor rank nor power nor honoured name | C |
It is not triumph in the Arts | D |
Best selling books or leading parts | D |
It is not plaudits of the crowd | E |
The flame of flags processions proud | E |
The panegyrics of the Press | A |
are but the mirage of Success | A |
You may have all of them my friend | F |
Yet be a failure in the end | F |
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I've know proud Presidents of banks | G |
Who've fought their way up from the ranks | G |
And party leaders of renown | H |
Who played as boys in Shantytown | H |
Strong self made men yet seek to trace | I |
Benignity in any face | I |
Grim purpose mastery maybe | J |
Yet never sweet serenity | J |
Never contentment thoughts that bless | A |
That mellow joy I deem Success | A |
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The haply seek some humble hearth | K |
Quite poor in goods yet rich in mirth | L |
And see a man of common clay | M |
Watching his little ones at play | M |
A laughing fellow full of cheer | N |
Health strength and faith that mocks at fear | N |
Who for his happiness relies | O |
On joys he lights in other eyes | O |
He loves his home and envies none | P |
Who happier beneath the sun | P |
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Aye though he walk in lowly ways | Q |
Shining Success has crowned his days | Q |
Robert Service
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