Not Always Glad When We Smile Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBDEFFE AGHHGEIJJI AKLLKMANNAWe are not always glad when we smile | A |
Though we wear a fair face and are gay | B |
And the world we deceive | C |
May not ever believe | C |
We could laugh in a happier way | B |
Yet down in the deeps of the soul | D |
Ofttimes with our faces aglow | E |
There's an ache and a moan | F |
That we know of alone | F |
And as only the hopeless may know | E |
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We are not always glad when we smile | A |
For the heart in a tempest of pain | G |
May live in the guise | H |
Of a smile in the eyes | H |
As a rainbow may live in the rain | G |
And the stormiest night of our woe | E |
May hang out a radiant star | I |
Whose light in the sky | J |
Of despair is a lie | J |
As black as the thunder clouds are | I |
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We are not always glad when we smile | A |
But the conscience is quick to record | K |
All the sorrow and sin | L |
We are hiding within | L |
Is plain in the sight of the Lord | K |
And ever O ever till pride | M |
And evasion shall cease to defile | A |
The sacred recess | N |
Of the soul we confess | N |
We are not always glad when we smile | A |
James Whitcomb Riley
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