When We Play The Fool Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFGGHH IIJJHHDD KKLLKKH| Last night I stood in a tawdry place | A |
| And watched the ways of the human race | A |
| I looked at a party of shrieking girls | B |
| Piled on a table that whirls and whirls | B |
| And saw them thrown in a tangled heap | C |
| Sprawling and squirming and several deep | C |
| And unto the wife who was standing by | D |
| 'These are all angels to be ' said I | D |
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| I followed the ways of the merry throng | E |
| And heard the laughter and mirth and song | E |
| Into a barrel which turned and swayed | F |
| Men and women a journey made | F |
| And tumbling together they seemed to be | G |
| Like so many porpoises out at sea | G |
| Men and women who'd worked all day | H |
| Eagerly seeking a chance to play | H |
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| 'What do you make of it all ' she said | I |
| I answered 'The dead are a long time dead | I |
| And care is bitter and duty stern | J |
| And each must weep when it comes his turn | J |
| And all grow weary and long for play | H |
| So here is laughter to end the day | H |
| Foolish Oh yes it is that ' said I | D |
| 'But better the laugh than the dreary sigh | D |
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| 'Now look at us here for we're like them too | K |
| And many the foolish things we do | K |
| We often grow silly and seek a smile | L |
| In a thousand ways that are not worth while | L |
| Yet after the mirth and the jest are through | K |
| We shall all be judged by the deeds we do | K |
| And God shall forget on the Judgment Day | H |
| The fools we were in our hours of play ' | - |
Edgar Albert Guest
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