The Winners Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A AAAABB CDADBB EFEFBB AGAGBB| quot The Story of the Gadsbys quot | A |
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| What the moral Who rides may read | A |
| When the night is thick and the tracks are blind | A |
| A friend at a pinch is a friend indeed | A |
| But a fool to wait for the laggard behind | A |
| Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne | B |
| He travels the fastest who travels alone | B |
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| White hands cling to the tightened rein | C |
| Slipping the spur from the booted heel | D |
| Tenderest voices cry quot Turn again quot | A |
| Red lips tarnish the scabbarded steel | D |
| High hopes faint on a warm hearth stone | B |
| He travels the fastest who travels alone | B |
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| One may fall but he falls by himself | E |
| Falls by himself with himself to blame | F |
| One may attain and to him is pelf | E |
| Loot of the city in Gold or Fame | F |
| Plunder of earth shall be all his own | B |
| Who travels the fastest and travels alone | B |
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| Wherefore the more ye be helpen en and stayed | A |
| Stayed by a friend in the hour of toil | G |
| Sing the heretical song I have made | A |
| His be the labour and yours be the spoil | G |
| Win by his aid and the aid disown | B |
| He travels the fastest who travels alone | B |
Rudyard Kipling
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