All Fools' Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFGFHIHI JKJKLMLM| Now is the day when arrant fools | A |
| Play outworn tricks on sober men | B |
| But for the thoughtful soul that schools | A |
| His mind to conning o'er again | B |
| Past folly that he may see clear | C |
| Faults of commission and neglect | D |
| This is the day in all the year | C |
| For help inducing retrospect | D |
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| Myself when young and confident | E |
| Walked ever proudly on my way | F |
| With eyes set onward as I went | G |
| I gave small heed to yesterday | F |
| But growing old the once bright star | H |
| Waned to a faint and sickly flame | I |
| So faint I'd turn and gaze afar | H |
| For help along the way I came | I |
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| A chastening exercise for me | J |
| This yearly task of harking back | K |
| For what a piteous fool I see | J |
| Comes tumbling up that thorny track | K |
| I would cast ashes on my head | L |
| Did consolation not recall | M |
| That in the end when all is said | L |
| Both young and old well aren't we all | M |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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