Winners Or Losers? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAABB CDEEEDD FBFFFBB GHGGGHH| Unless our Souls win back to Thee | A |
| We shall have lost this fight | B |
| Yes though we win on field and sea | A |
| Though mightier still our might may be | A |
| We still shall lose if we win not Thee | A |
| Help us to climb as in Thy sight | B |
| The Great High Way of Thy Delight | B |
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| It is the world old strife again | C |
| The fight 'twixt good and ill | D |
| Since first the curse broke out in Cain | E |
| Each age has worn the grim red chain | E |
| And ill fought good for sake of gain | E |
| Help us through all life's conflict still | D |
| To battle upwards to Thy Will | D |
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| Are we to be like all the rest | F |
| Or climb we loftier height | B |
| Can we our wayward steps arrest | F |
| All life with nobler life invest | F |
| And so fulfil our Lord's behest | F |
| Help us through all the world's dark night | B |
| To struggle upwards to the Light | B |
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| If not we too shall pass as passed | G |
| The older peoples in their time | H |
| God's pact is sure His word stands fast | G |
| Those who His sovereignty outcast | G |
| Outcast themselves shall be at last | G |
| So lest we pass in this our prime | H |
| Lord set us to the upward climb | H |
William Arthur Dunkerley (john Oxenham)
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