All Mad Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE AGHIJKLK HMNOLPNPDQRQHe is mad as a hare poor fellow | A |
And should be in chains you say | B |
I haven't a doubt of your statement | C |
But who isn't mad I pray | B |
Why the world is a great asylum | D |
And people are all insane | E |
Gone daft with pleasure or folly | F |
Or crazed with passion and pain | E |
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The infant who shrieks at a shadow | A |
The child with his Santa Claus faith | G |
The woman who worships Dame Fashion | H |
Each man with his notions of death | I |
The miser who hoards up his earnings | J |
The spendthrift who wastes them too soon | K |
The scholar grown blind in his delving | L |
The lover who stares at the moon | K |
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The poet who thinks life a paean | H |
The cynic who thinks it a fraud | M |
The youth who goes seeking for pleasure | N |
The preacher who dares talk of God | O |
All priests with their creeds and their croaking | L |
All doubters who dare to deny | P |
The gay who find aught to wake laughter | N |
The sad who find aught worth a sigh | P |
Whoever is downcast or solemn | D |
Whoever is gleeful and glad | Q |
Are only the dupes of delusions | R |
We are all of us all of us mad | Q |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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