Compensations: 03 - Shut-in Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHII AAJKFF| Across my window glass | A |
| The moving shadows of the people pass | A |
| Sometimes the shadow's pause and through the hall | B |
| Kind neighbours come to call | B |
| Bringing a word or smile | C |
| To cheer my loneliness a little while | C |
| But as I hear them talk | D |
| These people who can walk | D |
| And go about the great green earth at will | E |
| I wonder if they know the joy of being still | E |
| And all alone with thoughts that soar afar | F |
| High as the highest star | F |
| And oft I feel more free | G |
| Than those who travel over land and sea | G |
| For one who is shut in | H |
| Away from all the outer strife and din | H |
| With faithful Pain for guide | I |
| Finds where Great Truths abide | I |
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| Across my window glass | A |
| The moving shadows pass | A |
| But swifter moves my unimpeded thought | J |
| Speeding from spot to spot | K |
| Out and afar | F |
| High as the highest star | F |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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