Striving Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GAGAHH HCHCII AFAFJJ| Striving is life yet life is striving | A |
| I fight to live yet live to fight | B |
| The vital urge is in my driving | A |
| Yet I must drive with all my might | B |
| Each day a battle and the fray | C |
| Stoutly renewed the coming day | C |
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| A am myself yet when I strive | D |
| I build a self that's truer higher | E |
| I keep my bit of God alive | D |
| And forgive me in heroic fire | E |
| What if my goal I never gain | F |
| Better to toil than to attain | F |
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| It is not what I do or make | G |
| It is the travail of my trying | A |
| The aim the effort and the ache | G |
| Is in the end my glorifying | A |
| Through triumph I may never see | H |
| The will to win is victory | H |
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| Striving is strength with all that's in me | H |
| I will not falter in the fray | C |
| And though no shining crown it win me | H |
| I'll fight unto my latest day | C |
| Strive on and though I win no place | I |
| Uphold the spirit of the race | I |
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| Behold yon peaks that mock my climbing | A |
| I peer from out the dusty plain | F |
| Dark falls the mission bells are chiming | A |
| As on to starry heights I strain | F |
| Despite the night up up I plod | J |
| To gain the golden meads of God | J |
Robert William Service
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