Wages Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB CDCDD| Glory of warrior glory of orator glory of song | A |
| Paid with a voice flying by to be lost on an endless sea | B |
| Glory of Virtue to fight to struggle to right the wrong | A |
| Nay but she aim'd not at glory no lover of glory she | B |
| Give her the glory of going on and still to be | B |
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| The wages of sin is death if the wages of Virtue be dust | C |
| Would she have heart to endure for the life of the worm and the fly | D |
| She desires no isles of the blest no quiet seats of the just | C |
| To rest in a golden grove or to bask in a summer sky | D |
| Give her the wages of going on and not to die | D |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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