The Mask Falls Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDE FFGH IIBB| If I speak the truth unshaped unplanned | A |
| no polished words no staged command | A |
| the crowd may scatter shadows flee | B |
| but those who stay will truly see | B |
| - | |
| For masks can charm but never bind | C |
| they hide the soul they trick the mind | C |
| Real intimacy demands the cost | D |
| to lose the ones who loved the gloss | E |
| - | |
| The circle small the circle true | F |
| remains when all the false are through | F |
| Honesty does not please the crowd | G |
| but draws the few who stand unbowed | H |
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| So let the mask be torn away | I |
| the right ones linger come what may | I |
| In truth in light the soul is free | B |
| connection born authentically | B |
Vanessa Dizon Alvarez
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