Dirge For A Joker Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFEF GHGH II| Always in the middle of a kiss | A |
| Came the profane stimulus to cough | B |
| Always from teh pulpit during service | C |
| Leaned the devil prompting you to laugh | D |
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| Behind mock ceremony of your grief | E |
| Lurked the burlesque instinct of the ham | F |
| You never altered your amused belief | E |
| That life was a mere monumental sham | F |
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| From the comic accident of birth | G |
| To the final grotesque joke of death | H |
| Your malady of sacrilegious mirth | G |
| Spread gay contagion with each clever breath | H |
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| Now you must play the straight man for a term | I |
| And tolerate the humor of the worm | I |
Sylvia Plath
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