The Hinterland Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH AIAIBJBJ KLKLMDMD| You speak to me but does your speech | A |
| With truest truth your thought convey | B |
| I listen to your words and each | A |
| Is what I wait to hear you say | B |
| The pattern that your lips reveal | C |
| How does it measure with your mind | D |
| What undertones do you conceal | C |
| Your smile is sweet but what's behind | D |
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| I speak to you but do I tell | E |
| The secret working of my brain | F |
| Frank honesty would make life hell | E |
| And truth be tantamount to pain | F |
| When deep into the mind one delves | G |
| Appalling verities we view | H |
| If we betrayed our inner selves | G |
| Would you hate man and I hate you | H |
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| Are we not strangers each to each | A |
| And all alone we live and die | I |
| Deception is the stuff of speech | A |
| And life a smug and glossy lie | I |
| Where puppet like our parts we play | B |
| The first in public we rehearse | J |
| The second when we shrink away | B |
| into our private universe | J |
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| The soul has its grim hinterland | K |
| 'Twere better never to explore | L |
| Dark jungles where obscenely planned | K |
| Prowl monsters of primaeval lore | L |
| With primal fear our lives are fraught | M |
| And cravenly we cower behind | D |
| The silences of secret thought | M |
| The murky mazes of the Mind | D |
Robert Service
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