A Clown's Prelude Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDDEFGHFGH| Behold I cover up this trail of tears | A |
| A moment's weakness left upon my cheek | B |
| And hush my heart a little ere I speak | B |
| Lest the false note ring true on other ears | C |
| The music rises and the empty cheers | C |
| Proclaim the harlequin and lo I stand | D |
| The painted fool again and kiss my hand | D |
| With jocund air to Folly's worshippers | E |
| So day by day life's bitter bread is earned | F |
| With lips that smile and frame the mirthless joke | G |
| And frailer grows the soul that once was strong | H |
| The joyless soul of one whose trade has turned | F |
| Life's tragic mantle to a jester's cloak | G |
| Life's diapason to a jester's song | H |
Charles Hamilton Musgrove
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