Under The Surface Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DDEEDDFGHH| AY smile as you will with your saintly face | A |
| But I know the line | B |
| Of your guard is as weak as a maze of lace | A |
| You may give no sign | B |
| And the devil is never far to seek | C |
| And a rotten peach has a lovely cheek | C |
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| As they come in the stream I say to you | D |
| The lives we jostle are none of them true | D |
| Who seeks with a lamp and glass may find | E |
| A nature of honor from core to rind | E |
| But woe to the heart that is formed so true | D |
| It may not reck and it still must rue | D |
| The perjured lip and the bleeding vow | F |
| God keep it blind to the things we know | G |
| To the ghastly scars for the leech's eyes | H |
| And the occult lore of the worldly wise | H |
John Boyle O'reilly
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