Charity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDD CCCCDD EFEFBB GCGCCC CBCBCC| The Princess was of ancient line | A |
| Of royal race was she | B |
| Like cameo her face was fine | A |
| With sad serentiy | C |
| Yet bent she toiled with dimming eye | D |
| Her rice and milk to buy | D |
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| With lacework that for pity plead | C |
| So out of date it seemed | C |
| She sought to make her daily bread | C |
| As of her past she dreamed | C |
| And though sometimes I heard her sigh | D |
| I never knew her cry | D |
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| Her patient heart was full of hope | E |
| For health she gave God thanks | F |
| Till one day in an envelope | E |
| I sealed a thousand francs | F |
| And 'neath her door for her to see | B |
| I slipped it secretly | B |
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| 'Twas long after I came to know | G |
| My gift she never spent | C |
| But gave to one of greater woe | G |
| And wearily she went | C |
| To be of charity a part | C |
| That stabbed her to the heart | C |
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| For one dark day we found her dead | C |
| Oh she was sweet to see | B |
| Exalted in her garret bed | C |
| With face like ivory | B |
| Aye though from lack of food she died | C |
| Unflawed she flagged her pride | C |
Robert Service
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