Laughter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEE FGHHIIBB JJKKLLMM| I Laugh at Life its antics make for me a giddy games | A |
| Where only foolish fellows take themselves with solemn aim | B |
| I laugh at pomp and vanity at riches rank and pride | C |
| At social inanity at swager swank and side | C |
| At poets pastry cooks and kings at folk sublime and small | D |
| Who fuss about a thousand things that matter not at all | D |
| At those who dream of name and fame at those who scheme for pelf | E |
| But best of all the laughing game is laughing at myself | E |
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| Some poet chap had labelled man the noblest work of God | F |
| I see myself a charlatan a humbug and a fraud | G |
| Yea 'spite of show and shallow wit an sentimental drool | H |
| I know myself a hypocrite a coward and a fool | H |
| And though I kick myself with glee profoundly on the pants | I |
| I'm little worse it seems to me than other human ants | I |
| For if you probe your private mind impervious to shame | B |
| Oh Gentle Reader you may find you're much about the same | B |
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| Then let us mock with ancient mirth this comic cosmic plan | J |
| The stars are laughing at the earth God's greatest joke is man | J |
| For laughter is a buckler bright and scorn a shining spear | K |
| So let us laugh with all our might at folly fraud and fear | K |
| Yet on our sorry selves be spent our most sardonic glee | L |
| Oh don't pay life a compliment to take is seriously | L |
| For he who can himself despise be surgeon to the bone | M |
| May win to worth in others' eyes to wisdom in his own | M |
Robert Service
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