We Wear The Mask Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBC AABD AABBAD| We wear the mask that grins and lies | A |
| It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes | A |
| This debt we pay to human guile | B |
| With torn and bleeding hearts we smile | B |
| And mouth with myriad subtleties | C |
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| Why should the world be over wise | A |
| In counting all our tears and sighs | A |
| Nay let them only see us while | B |
| We wear the mask | D |
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| We smile but O great Christ our cries | A |
| To thee from tortured souls arise | A |
| We sing but oh the clay is vile | B |
| Beneath our feet and long the mile | B |
| But let the world dream otherwise | A |
| We wear the mask | D |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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