Compensations Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIK LMLM NONO| Not with a flash that rends the blue | A |
| Shall fall the avenging sword | B |
| Gently as the evening dew | A |
| Descends the mighty Lord | B |
| - | |
| His dreadful balances are made | C |
| To move with moon and tide | D |
| Yet shall not mercy be afraid | C |
| Nor justice be denied | D |
| - | |
| The dreams that seemed to waste away | E |
| The kindliness forgot | F |
| Were singing in your heart today | E |
| Although you knew them not | F |
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| The sun shall not forget his road | G |
| Nor the high stars their rhyme | H |
| The traveller with the heavier load | G |
| Has one less hill to climb | H |
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| And though a darker shadow fall | I |
| On every struggling age | J |
| How shall it be if after all | I |
| He share our pilgrimage | K |
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| The end we mourn is not the end | L |
| The dust has nimble wings | M |
| But truth and beauty have a friend | L |
| At the deep heart of things | M |
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| He will not speak What friend belies | N |
| His love with idle breath | O |
| We read it in each others' eyes | N |
| And ask no more in death | O |
Alfred Noyes
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