Truth To Tell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEAAAAE AAFAGHIJ EAAAAEKL AMABNOPH AAQARASE| Vous n'etes que les masques sur des faces masquees | A |
| Apollinaire | B |
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| Start then with a sense of beginning of sleep | C |
| entered like a metal door backstage the weight | D |
| of heavy plush curtains lifted and folded hanging | E |
| motionless while the catwalk sways and winches | A |
| and pulleys creak It is no longer rest one seeks | A |
| but mastery the knowledge of ways to choose | A |
| among strands of rope rising into the dark boxes | A |
| of switches levers to be thrown dials gleaming | E |
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| The action comes closer now the murmur of voices | A |
| tinged with laughter issuing from the cavernous space | A |
| beyond the footlights And sporadic applause followed | F |
| by music But though this mattered once though dreams | A |
| well up in this way too with easy delicious abandon | G |
| and sleep has its own texture the painted faces seem | H |
| familiar even your father is here looking the way | I |
| he always did still this is only rehearsal Truth to tell | J |
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| there is no one out there except the director sitting | E |
| with his clipboard thirty seats back In the wings | A |
| the pianist goes over the same simple tune Yes | A |
| there are spotlights from a place you cannot see | A |
| and scenery rises and falls and darkened figures | A |
| glide across the stage during blackout rearranging | E |
| the furniture all this is happening yet it goes on | K |
| whether you reach out or whether you simply watch | L |
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| But they have lost the script or dropped the only copy | A |
| Its pages flutter across the stage lifted by a cold wind | M |
| blowing from the air shaft swirling up from the alley | A |
| and the blank walls beyond Fluorescent lights flicker | B |
| in the wardrobe room In the corridor the red exit sign | N |
| glimmers All of this is waiting You must write it now | O |
| you must make it happen There are only a few days left | P |
| until opening night Come then rest slumber dream | H |
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| take my hand we will visit the forgotten dressing rooms | A |
| under the stage where the old tragedians scrawled verses | A |
| on the bare planks We will go up into the attic above | Q |
| the chandeliers and the catwalks where silence settles | A |
| like a fine dust on the broken props and the trunks filled | R |
| with ruined costumes Will they arrive in time these truths | A |
| to tell this chorus of voices I am convinced of it | S |
| Let us each take a part let us begin the first reading | E |
Jared Carter
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