A Hero's Decision Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBADEF DGHG IJK LMNMOPQP RSGSTCUC LVWVUAMA TXTX| He just had reached the time of life | A |
| When cares are felt by men | B |
| But when they're strong to bear them well | C |
| A score of years and ten | B |
| Heigh ho says he and this is life | A |
| The dream of earlier years | D |
| In which we see so much of joy | E |
| And naught of bitter tears | F |
| - | |
| I've lived a half a score of years | D |
| In search of fame and glory | G |
| For all earth's boasted joys I've sought | H |
| But ah what is the story | G |
| - | |
| The story 'tis the same old tale | I |
| Told long long years ago | J |
| But strange each for himself must learn | K |
| This earth's a 'fleeting show ' | - |
| - | |
| The dreams of sanguine hopeful youth | L |
| Are chiefly dreams alone | M |
| Whose falseness often breaks the heart | N |
| Or turns it into stone | M |
| Fame's or ambition's giddy height | O |
| Is only seldom gain'd | P |
| And often half the pleasure leaves | Q |
| Just when the height's attain'd | P |
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| But still I strive and still I hope | R |
| And still I fight the battle | S |
| Besieg'd by earth's artillery | G |
| With all its horrid rattle | S |
| Then come ye mocking earthly foes | T |
| E'en come like fiends of hell | C |
| I'll fight the battle till I die | U |
| And I will fight it well | C |
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| I'll change my tactics quickly tho' | L |
| Fight on a diff'rent line | V |
| And on my waving battle flag | W |
| I'll mark a diff'rent sign | V |
| Until this present moment I | U |
| Have fought in single strife | A |
| But I will fight no more alone | M |
| I'll get myself a wife | A |
| - | |
| We'll then fight all who dare oppose | T |
| E'en should it be her brother | X |
| And when we've vanquish'd all our foes | T |
| We'll turn and fight each other | X |
Thomas Frederick Young
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