The Comforters Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HIHI JKJL MNON PQRQ STST UVUT| Until thy feet have trod the Road | A |
| Advise not wayside folk | B |
| Nor till thy back has borne the Load | A |
| Break in upon the broke | B |
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| Chase not with undesired largesse | C |
| Of sympathy the heart | D |
| Which knowing her own bitterness | E |
| Presumes to dwell apart | D |
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| Employ not that glad hand to raise | F |
| The God forgotten head | G |
| To Heaven and all the neighbours' gaze | F |
| Cover thy mouth instead | G |
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| The quivering chin the bitten lip | H |
| The cold and sweating brow | I |
| Later may yearn for fellowship | H |
| Not now you ass not now | I |
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| Time not thy ne'er so timely speech | J |
| Life not thy views thereon | K |
| Shall furnish or deny to each | J |
| His consolation | L |
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| Or if impelled to interfere | M |
| Exhort uplift advise | N |
| Lend not a base betraying ear | O |
| To all the victim's cries | N |
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| Only the Lord can understand | P |
| When those first pangs begin | Q |
| How much is reflex action and | R |
| How much is really sin | Q |
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| E'en from good words thyself refrain | S |
| And tremblingly admit | T |
| There is no anodyne for pain | S |
| Except the shock of it | T |
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| So when thine own dark hour shall fall | U |
| Unchallenged canst thou say | V |
| quot I never worried you at all | U |
| For God's sake go away quot | T |
Rudyard Kipling
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