Comic Miseries Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBDED FBGBHIJK LBMBBNEN NBOBNMNM BLPLQDRD NSNSKTUT BBQBBVBV NBCBBDED B| My dear young friend whose shining wit | A |
| Sets all the room a blaze | B |
| Don't think yourself a happy dog | C |
| For all your merry ways | B |
| But learn to wear a sober phiz | B |
| Be stupid if you can | D |
| It's such a very serious thing | E |
| To be a funny man | D |
| - | |
| You're at an evening party with | F |
| A group of pleasant folks | B |
| You venture quietly to crack | G |
| The least of little jokes | B |
| A lady doesn't catch the point | H |
| And begs you to explain | I |
| Alas for one that drops a jest | J |
| And takes it up again | K |
| - | |
| You're talking deep philosophy | L |
| With very special force | B |
| To edify a clergyman | M |
| With suitable discourse | B |
| You think you've got him when he calls | B |
| A friend across the way | N |
| And begs you'll say that funny thing | E |
| You said the other day | N |
| - | |
| You drop a pretty jeu de mot | N |
| Into a neighbor's ears | B |
| Who likes to give you credit for | O |
| The clever thing he hears | B |
| And so he hawks your jest about | N |
| The old authentic one | M |
| Just breaking off the point of it | N |
| And leaving out the pun | M |
| - | |
| By sudden change in politics | B |
| Or sadder change in Polly | L |
| You lose your love or loaves and fall | P |
| A prey to melancholy | L |
| While everybody marvels why | Q |
| Your mirth is under ban | D |
| They think your very grief a joke | R |
| You're such a funny man | D |
| - | |
| You follow up a stylish card | N |
| That bids you come and dine | S |
| And bring along your freshest wit | N |
| To pay for musty wine | S |
| You're looking very dismal when | K |
| My lady bounces in | T |
| And wonders what you're thinking of | U |
| And why you don't begin | T |
| - | |
| You're telling to a knot of friends | B |
| A fancy tale of woes | B |
| That cloud your matrimonial sky | Q |
| And banish all repose | B |
| solemn lady overhears | B |
| The story of your strife | V |
| And tells the town the pleasant news | B |
| You quarrel with your wife | V |
| - | |
| My dear young friend whose shining wit | N |
| Sets all the room a blaze | B |
| Don't think yourself a happy dog | C |
| For all your merry ways | B |
| But learn to wear a sober phiz | B |
| Be stupid if you can | D |
| It's such a very serious thing | E |
| To be a funny man | D |
| - | |
| John G Saxe | B |
John Godfrey Saxe I
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