Consolation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBA CCCDDDC EEEFFFE GGGHHHG| with you | A |
| Your whole long gusty lifetime through | A |
| Be gone a while before | B |
| Be now a moment gone before | B |
| Yet doubt not soon the seasons shall restore | B |
| Your friend to you | A |
| - | |
| He has but turned the corner still | C |
| He pushes on with right good will | C |
| Through mire and marsh by heugh and hill | C |
| That self same arduous way | D |
| That self same upland hopeful way | D |
| That you and he through many a doubtful day | D |
| Attempted still | C |
| - | |
| He is not dead this friend not dead | E |
| But in the path we mortals tread | E |
| Got some few trifling steps ahead | E |
| And nearer to the end | F |
| So that you too once past the bend | F |
| Shall meet again as face to face this friend | F |
| You fancy dead | E |
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| Push gaily on strong heart The while | G |
| You travel forward mile by mile | G |
| He loiters with a backward smile | G |
| Till you can overtake | H |
| And strains his eyes to search his wake | H |
| Or whistling as he sees you through the brake | H |
| Waits on a stile | G |
Robert Louis Stevenson
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