Compensation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBABACDCDCD| One launched a ship but she was wrecked at sea | A |
| He built a bridge but floods have borne it down | B |
| He meant much good none came strange destiny | A |
| His corn lies sunk his bridge bears none to town | B |
| Yet good he had not meant became his crown | B |
| For once at work when even as nature free | A |
| From thought of good he was or of renown | B |
| God took the work for good and let good be | A |
| So wakened with a trembling after sleep | C |
| Dread Mona Roa yields her fateful store | D |
| All gleaming hot the scarlet rivers creep | C |
| And fanned of great leaved palms slip to the shore | D |
| Then stolen to unplumbed wastes of that far deep | C |
| Lay the foundations for one island more | D |
Jean Ingelow
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