A Fool Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFFAGHIAJKLMLNOP QRSTUCEJVWXYZA2B2CA2 C2D2OZE2C2F2G2D2H2I2 J2K2L2M2N2SFK2O2P2BQ 2R2I2S2O2T2U2V2W2JX2 FA2FY2VZ2A3ZB3C3VA2D 3E2E3VAF2E2Z2OC3X2A2 F3K2G3CS2F| HE asked me of my friend 'a clever man | A |
| Such various talent business journalism | B |
| A pen that might some day have sent out leaders | C |
| From our greatest newspapers ' 'Yes all this | D |
| All this ' I said 'And yet he will not rise | E |
| He'll stay a comp a printer all his life ' | F |
| I said 'Just that a workman all his life ' | F |
| But as my questioner was a business man | A |
| One of the sons of Capital a sage | G |
| Whose Practicality saw I can suppose | H |
| Quite to his nose tip or even his finger ends | I |
| I vouchsafed explanation 'This young man | A |
| My friend was born and bred a workman All | J |
| His heart and soul and men have souls and hearts | K |
| Other than those the doctor proses of | L |
| The parson prates of and both make their trade | M |
| Were centred in his comradeship and love | L |
| His friends his mates were workmen and the girl | N |
| He wooed and made a happy wife and mother | O |
| Had heart and soul like him in whence she sprung | P |
| Observe now When he came to think and read | Q |
| He saw it seemed to him he saw in what | R |
| Capitalists Employers men like you | S |
| Think and call justice in your inter dealings | T |
| Some slight mistakes I fancy he'd say wrongs | U |
| Whereby his order suffered So he wonders | C |
| Cannot we change this And he tries and tries | E |
| Knowing his fellows and adapting all | J |
| His effort in the channels that they know | V |
| You understand He's only an Unionist | W |
| Now for the second point This man believes | X |
| That these mistakes these wrongs we'll pass the word | Y |
| Spring from a certain thing called competition | Z |
| Which you and I know is a God given thing | A2 |
| Whereby the fittest get up to the top | B2 |
| That's I or you and tread down all the others | C |
| Well this man sees how by this God given thing | A2 |
| He has the chance to use his extra wits | C2 |
| And clamber up he sees how others have | D2 |
| Like you or me my father's father's father | O |
| Was a market gardener and I trust a good one | Z |
| He sees moreover how perpetually | E2 |
| Each of his fellows who has extra wits | C2 |
| Has used them as the fox fallen in the well | F2 |
| Used the confiding goat and how the goats | G2 |
| More and more wallow there and stupefy | D2 |
| Robbed of the little wit the hapless crowd | H2 |
| Had in their general haplessness Well then | I2 |
| This man of mine this is against all law | J2 |
| Human divine and natural I admit | K2 |
| Prefers to wallow there and not get out | L2 |
| Except they all can I've made quite a tale | M2 |
| About what is quite simple Yet 'tis curious | N2 |
| As I see you hold Now frankly tell me will you | S |
| What do you think of him ' 'He is a fool ' | F |
| 'He is a fool There is no doubt of it | K2 |
| But I am told that it was some such fool | O2 |
| Came once from Galilee and ended on | P2 |
| A criminal's cross outside Jerusalem | B |
| And that this fool he and his criminal's cross | Q2 |
| Broke up an Empire that seemed adamant | R2 |
| And made a new world which renewed again | I2 |
| Is Europe still | S2 |
| He is a fool And it was some such fool | O2 |
| Drudged up and down the earth these later years | T2 |
| And wrote a Book the other fools bought up | U2 |
| In tens of thousands calling it a Gospel | V2 |
| And this fool too and the fools that follow him | W2 |
| Or hold with him why he and they shall all | J |
| End in the mad house or the gutter where | X2 |
| They'll chew the husk of their mad dreams and die ' | F |
| 'Well what are their follies but dreams They have done nothing | A2 |
| And never will ' | F |
| 'One moment I have just a word to say | Y2 |
| How comes it tell me friend six weeks ago | V |
| A comp was sent a packing for a cause | Z2 |
| His fellows thought unjust and that same night | A3 |
| Or rather the next morning in comes one | Z |
| To tell you quite politely that unless | B3 |
| That comp was setting at his frame they feared | C3 |
| One of our greatest newspapers would not go | V |
| That day a harbinger of light and leading | A2 |
| To gladden and instruct its thousands And | D3 |
| If I remember right it did and so did he | E2 |
| That wretched comp set at his frame and does | E3 |
| How came it also that three months ago | V |
| Your brother the shipowner sacked a man | A |
| Out of his ship and bade him go to hell | F2 |
| And in the evening up came two or three | E2 |
| Discreetly asking him to state the cause | Z2 |
| And when he said he'd see them with the other | O |
| Videlicet in hell they said they feared | C3 |
| Unless the other came thence if he was there | X2 |
| And was upon his ship to morrow morning | A2 |
| It would not sail It did not sail till noon | F3 |
| And he sailed with it | K2 |
| But this is all beside the point Our comp | G3 |
| Who sweats there and who will not write you leaders | C |
| Except to help a friend who's fallen ill | S2 |
| Why he beyond a doubt he is a fool ' | F |
Francis William Lauderdale Adams
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