We Are Not Always Glad When We Smile Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBDEFFE AGHHGEIJJI AKLLKMANNA| We 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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