Success Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CCDDEEAAFF GGHHIIJJAA KLMMNNOOPP QQ| You 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 William Service
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