The Men That Don't Fit In Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKL MNONPAQA| There's a race of men that don't fit in | A |
| A race that can't stay still | B |
| So they break the hearts of kith and kin | A |
| And they roam the world at will | B |
| They range the field and they rove the flood | C |
| And they climb the mountain's crest | D |
| Theirs is the curse of the gypsy blood | C |
| And they don't know how to rest | D |
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| If they just went straight they might go far | E |
| They are strong and brave and true | F |
| But they're always tired of the things that are | E |
| And they want the strange and new | F |
| They say Could I find my proper groove | G |
| What a deep mark I would make | H |
| So they chop and change and each fresh move | G |
| Is only a fresh mistake | H |
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| And each forgets as he strips and runs | I |
| With a brilliant fitful pace | J |
| It's the steady quiet plodding ones | I |
| Who win in the lifelong race | J |
| And each forgets that his youth has fled | K |
| Forgets that his prime is past | L |
| Till he stands one day with a hope that's dead | K |
| In the glare of the truth at last | L |
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| He has failed he has failed he has missed his chance | M |
| He has just done things by half | N |
| Life's been a jolly good joke on him | O |
| And now is the time to laugh | N |
| Ha ha He is one of the Legion Lost | P |
| He was never meant to win | A |
| He's a rolling stone and it's bred in the bone | Q |
| He's a man who won't fit in | A |
Robert Service
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