The Hinterland Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH AIAIBJBJ KLKLMDMDYou 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 William Service
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