I Used To Believe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDE FFGG HHIJ| I used to think that kindness sung | A |
| would echo back from every tongue | A |
| that gentle hands would be repaid | B |
| that loyalty could never fade | B |
| - | |
| But life revealed a harsher truth | C |
| not all return the grace of youth | C |
| Some walk away some silence speaks | D |
| their distance louder than their creeds | E |
| - | |
| So now I guard the flame I keep | F |
| protect my soul though shadows seep | F |
| It is not cold to turn aside | G |
| but wisdom clothed in quiet pride | G |
| - | |
| For beauty lies in strength concealed | H |
| in scars that teach in wounds that healed | H |
| No echo needed none required | I |
| my light endures though theirs expired | J |
Vanessa Dizon Alvarez
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