The Comedian Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDEEED FGHGIJKKKJ LMCMNONPPO QOLOIARRRA| Whatever the task and whatever the risk wherever | A |
| the flag's in air | B |
| The funny man with his sunny ways is sure to | C |
| be laughing there | B |
| There are men who fret there are men who | C |
| dream men making the best of it | D |
| But whether it's hunger or death they face | E |
| Or burning thirst in a desert place | E |
| There is always one by the good Lord's grace | E |
| Who is making a jest of it | D |
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| He travels wherever his brothers go and he leaves | F |
| his home behind him | G |
| The need for smiles he seems to know in the | H |
| ranks of death you'll find him | G |
| When some are weary and sick and faint and | I |
| all with the dust are choking | J |
| He dances there with a spirit gay | K |
| And tints with gold what is drab and gray | K |
| And into the gloom of the night and day | K |
| He scatters his mirthful joking | J |
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| He wins to courage the soul tried men he lightens | L |
| their hours of sorrow | M |
| He turns their thoughts from the grief that is to | C |
| the joy that may come to morrow | M |
| He mocks at death and he jests at toil as one | N |
| that is never weary | O |
| He japes at danger and discipline | N |
| Or the muddy trench that he's standing in | P |
| There's nothing can banish his merry grin | P |
| Or dampen his spirits cheery | O |
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| The honors of war to its heroes go for them are | Q |
| the pomp and glory | O |
| But seldom it is that the types relate a victory's | L |
| inside story | O |
| And few shall know when the strife is done and | I |
| the history's made hereafter | A |
| How much depended on him who stirred | R |
| The souls of men with a cheerful word | R |
| And kept them brave by a jest absurd | R |
| And brightened their days with laughter | A |
Edgar Albert Guest
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