Compensation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFE GHGH IJIJ| LADY I see you every day | A |
| More than your other lovers do | B |
| I sit beside you at the Play | A |
| And in the Park I ride with you | B |
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| Through picture shows with you I roam | C |
| With you I shop and dance and dine | D |
| I know the hours when you're 'at home' | C |
| To no one else's knock but mine | D |
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| And yet so near and yet so far | E |
| I scarce dare look at you for fear | F |
| I should remark 'How sweet you are | E |
| How charming and how very dear ' | - |
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| I dare not touch that hand of yours | G |
| Or lend my voice a tender tone | H |
| I know my state of grace endures | G |
| By fasting and by prayer alone | H |
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| But in my lonely dreamlit nights | I |
| I kiss your hands your lips your eyes | J |
| For absence grants me all the rights | I |
| Your presence evermore denies | J |
Edith Nesbit
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