The Comedian Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDEEED FGHGIJKKKJ LMCMNONPPO QOLOIARRRAWhatever 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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