The Jesters Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDEFGHIHJKKJJ ALMLLLLNONOJJ PPPQPQ RQSSTTUU| A toast to the Fools | A |
| Pierrot Pantaloon | B |
| Harlequin Clown | C |
| Merry Andrew Buffoon | B |
| Touchstone and Triboulet all of the tribe | D |
| Dancer and jester and singer and scribe | D |
| We sigh over Yorick unfortunate fool | E |
| Ten thousand Hamlets have fumbled his skull | F |
| But where is the Hamlet to weep o'er the biers | G |
| Of his brothers | H |
| And where is the poet solicits our tears | I |
| For the others | H |
| They have passed from the world and left never a sign | J |
| And few of us now have the courage to sing | K |
| That their whimsies made life a more livable thing | K |
| We that are left of the line | J |
| Let us drink to the jesters in gooseberry wine | J |
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| Then here's to the Fools | A |
| Flouting the sages | L |
| Through history's pages | M |
| And driving the dreary old seers into rages | L |
| The humbugging Magis | L |
| Who prate that the wages | L |
| Of Folly are Death toast the Fools of all ages | L |
| They have ridden like froth down the whirlpools of time | N |
| They have jingled their caps in the councils of state | O |
| They have snared half the wisdom of life in a rhyme | N |
| And tripped into nothingness grinning at fate | O |
| Ho brothers mine | J |
| Brim up the glasses with gooseberry wine | J |
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| Though the prince with his firman | P |
| The judge in his ermine | P |
| Affirm and determine | P |
| Bold words need the whip | Q |
| Let them spare us the rod and remit us the sermon | P |
| For Death has a quip | Q |
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| Of the tomb and the vermin | R |
| That will silence at last the most impudent lip | Q |
| Is the world but a bubble a bauble a joke | S |
| Heigho Brother Fools now your bubble is broke | S |
| Do you ask for a tear or is it worth while | T |
| Here's a sigh for you then but it ends in a smile | T |
| Ho Brother Death | U |
| We would laugh at you too if you spared us the breath | U |
Don Marquis
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