In the poem "we wear the mask," paul laurence dunbar uses a relatively structured rhyme scheme in his depiction of a community putting up a facade and pretending to be something else. is there a time in which you acted in a way that was contrary to your own feelings? perhaps you hoped to live up to the way others wanted to see you. perhaps you did something that you weren’t comfortable doing in order to fit in.
write a poem describing what you did and how you felt. experiment with the rhyme scheme in your poem, just as modern poets did. after your poem, include a brief explanation of the rhyme scheme, structure, and literary devices that you used.