Failure Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFG HHI JJKL| He wrote a play by day and night | A |
| He strove with passion and delight | A |
| Yet knew long ere the curtain drop | B |
| His drama was a sorry flop | B |
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| In Parliament he sought a seat | C |
| Election Day brought dire defeat | C |
| Yet he had wooed with word and pen | D |
| Prodigiously his fellow men | D |
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| And then he wrote a lighter play | E |
| That made him famous in a day | E |
| He won a seat in Parliament | F |
| And starry was the way he went | G |
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| Yet as he neared the door of death | H |
| They heard him say with broken breath | H |
| 'For all I've spoken planned and penned | I |
| I'm just a wash out in the end ' | - |
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| So are we all our triumphs won | J |
| Are mean by what we might have done | J |
| Our victories that men applaud | K |
| Are sordid in the sight of God | L |
Robert William Service
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