The Start
Marcus Mosiah Garvey 1887 (Saint Ann's Bay) – 1940 (West Kensington, London, England)
Today I start my life for good;
I am determined now to find
The value of my real manhood;
And not to travel as if blind.
am yet young in age and hope;
I shall so think and do aright,
Things human, and, all in my scope,
To make of life a shining light.
There shall be no mistake in plan,
For time does not permit to lose,
And win again, the race of man;
Hence, now I start, and rightly choose.
I shall not travel wild to find
That I have fallen almost flat,
Then rise to weep and leave behind
That I a coward was for that.
So find yourself in early age,
To know what you shall be in life;
Then go and write on hist'ry's page
The victories of your daily strife;
For every man is battling you,
To cross the plain, with haste to win-
And hoist the flag in colors blue-
Then show the world where he has been
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | ABABCACDEFEFBGBGHIHIJKJK |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 787 |
Words | 167 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 24 |
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