Recompense Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HIHI JBJB HIHI| Straight through my heart this fact to day | A |
| By Truth s own hand is driven | B |
| God never takes one thing away | A |
| But something else is given | B |
| - | |
| I did not know in earlier years | C |
| This law of love and kindness | D |
| I only mourned through bitter tears | E |
| My loss in sorrow s blindness | D |
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| But ever following each regret | F |
| O er some departed treasure | G |
| My sad repining heart was met | F |
| With unexpected pleasure | G |
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| I thought is only happened so | H |
| But time this truth taught me | I |
| No least thing from my life can go | H |
| But something else is brought to me | I |
| - | |
| It is the Law complete sublime | J |
| And now with Faith unshaken | B |
| In patience I but bide my time | J |
| When any joy is taken | B |
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| No matter if the crushing blow | H |
| May for the moment down me | I |
| Still back of it waits Love I know | H |
| With some new gift to crown me | I |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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