John Bunny, Motion Picture Comedian Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDED FGHG IJKJ LIMI GDND| In which he is remembered in similitude by reference to Yorick | A |
| the king's jester who died when Hamlet and Ophelia were children | B |
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| Yorick is dead Boy Hamlet walks forlorn | C |
| Beneath the battlements of Elsinore | D |
| Where are those oddities and capers now | E |
| That used to set the table on a roar | D |
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| And do his bauble bells beyond the clouds | F |
| Ring out and shake with mirth the planets bright | G |
| No doubt he brings the blessed dead good cheer | H |
| But silence broods on Elsinore tonight | G |
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| That little elf Ophelia eight years old | I |
| Upon her battered doll's staunch bosom weeps | J |
| O best of men that wove glad fairy tales | K |
| With tear burned face at last the darling sleeps | J |
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| Hamlet himself could not give cheer or help | L |
| Though firm and brave with his boy face controlled | I |
| For every game they started out to play | M |
| Yorick invented in the days of old | I |
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| The times are out of joint O cursed spite | G |
| The noble jester Yorick comes no more | D |
| And Hamlet hides his tears in boyish pride | N |
| By some lone turret stair of Elsinore | D |
Vachel Lindsay
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