The Things We Dare Not Tell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCBB AABB DDBB| The fields are fair in autumn yet and the sun's still shining there | A |
| But we bow our heads and we brood and fret because of the masks we wear | A |
| Or we nod and smile the social while and we say we're doing well | B |
| But we break our hearts oh we break our hearts for the things we must not tell | B |
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| There's the old love wronged ere the new was won there's the light of long ago | C |
| There's the cruel lie that we suffer for and the public must not know | C |
| So we go through life with a ghastly mask and we're doing fairly well | B |
| While they break our hearts oh they kill our hearts do the things we must not tell | B |
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| We see but pride in a selfish breast while a heart is breaking there | A |
| Oh the world would be such a kindly world if all men's hearts lay bare | A |
| We live and share the living lie we are doing very well | B |
| While they eat our hearts as the years go by do the things we dare not tell | B |
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| We bow us down to a dusty shrine or a temple in the East | D |
| Or we stand and drink to the world old creed with the coffins at the feast | D |
| We fight it down and we live it down or we bear it bravely well | B |
| But the best men die of a broken heart for the things they cannot tell | B |
Henry Lawson
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