Compassion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE GGHIIH JJKAAK LMNOON| A beggar in the street I saw | A |
| Who held a hand like withered claw | A |
| As cold as clay | B |
| But as I had no silver groat | C |
| To give I buttoned up my coat | C |
| And turned away | B |
| - | |
| And then I watched a working wife | D |
| Who bore the bitter load of life | D |
| With lagging limb | E |
| A penny from her purse she took | F |
| And with sweet pity in her look | F |
| Gave it to him | E |
| - | |
| Anon I spied a shabby dame | G |
| Who fed six sparrows as they came | G |
| In famished flight | H |
| She was so poor and frail and old | I |
| Yet crumbs of her last crust she doled | I |
| With pure delight | H |
| - | |
| Then sudden in my heart was born | J |
| For my sleek self a savage scorn | J |
| Urge to atone | K |
| So when a starving cur I saw | A |
| I bandaged up its bleeding paw | A |
| And bought a bone | K |
| - | |
| For God knows it is good to give | L |
| We may not have so long to live | M |
| So if we can | N |
| Let's do each day a kindly deed | O |
| And stretch a hand to those in need | O |
| Bird beast or man | N |
Robert William Service
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