The Reward Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCD EEFGGF HHIJJK LMNOOP NNQRRQ SSTUUT| Who looking backward from his manhood's prime | A |
| Sees not the spectre of his misspent time | A |
| And through the shade | B |
| Of funeral cypress planted thick behind | C |
| Hears no reproachful whisper on the wind | C |
| From his loved dead | D |
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| Who bears no trace of passion's evil force | E |
| Who shuns thy sting O terrible Remorse | E |
| Who does not cast | F |
| On the thronged pages of his memory's book | G |
| At times a sad and half reluctant look | G |
| Regretful of the past | F |
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| Alas the evil which we fain would shun | H |
| We do and leave the wished for good undone | H |
| Our strength to day | I |
| Is but to morrow's weakness prone to fall | J |
| Poor blind unprofitable servants all | J |
| Are we alway | K |
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| Yet who thus looking backward o'er his years | L |
| Feels not his eyelids wet with grateful tears | M |
| If he hath been | N |
| Permitted weak and sinful as he was | O |
| To cheer and aid in some ennobling cause | O |
| His fellow men | P |
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| If he hath hidden the outcast or let in | N |
| A ray of sunshine to the cell of sin | N |
| If he hath lent | Q |
| Strength to the weak and in an hour of need | R |
| Over the suffering mindless of his creed | R |
| Or home hath bent | Q |
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| He has not lived in vain and while he gives | S |
| The praise to Him in whom he moves and lives | S |
| With thankful heart | T |
| He gazes backward and with hope before | U |
| Knowing that from his works he nevermore | U |
| Can henceforth part | T |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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