Compassion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFGGHH FFIIGGHH| What puts me in a rage is | A |
| The sight of cursed cages | A |
| Where singers of the sky | B |
| Perch hop instead of fly | B |
| Where lions to and fro | C |
| Pace seven yards or so | C |
| I who love space of stars | D |
| Have hate of bars | D |
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| I wince to see dogs chained | E |
| Or horses bit restrained | E |
| Or men of feeble mind | F |
| In straight jackets confined | F |
| Or convicts in black cells | G |
| Enduring earthly hells | G |
| To me not to be free | H |
| Is fiendish cruelty | H |
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| To me not to be kind | F |
| Is evil of the mind | F |
| No need to pray or preach | I |
| Let us our children teach | I |
| With every fond caress | G |
| Pity and gentleness | G |
| So in the end may we | H |
| God's Kingdom bring to be | H |
Robert Service
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