Aesop Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED F FG BDBD HIHI JKJK LML NBNB| He sat among the woods he heard | A |
| The sylvan merriment he saw | B |
| The pranks of butterfly and bird | A |
| The humours of the ape the daw | B |
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| And in the lion or the frog | C |
| In all the life of moor and fen | D |
| In ass and peacock stork and dog | E |
| He read similitudes of men | D |
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| 'Of these from those ' he cried 'we come | F |
| Our hearts our brains descend from these ' | - |
| And lo the Beasts no more were dumb | F |
| But answered out of brakes and trees | G |
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| 'Not ours ' they cried 'Degenerate | B |
| If ours at all ' they cried again | D |
| 'Ye fools who war with God and Fate | B |
| Who strive and toil strange race of men | D |
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| 'For WE are neither bond nor free | H |
| For WE have neither slaves nor kings | I |
| But near to Nature's heart are we | H |
| And conscious of her secret things | I |
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| 'Content are we to fall asleep | J |
| And well content to wake no more | K |
| We do not laugh we do not weep | J |
| Nor look behind us and before | K |
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| 'But were there cause for moan or mirth | L |
| 'Tis WE not you should sigh or scorn | M |
| Oh latest children of the Earth | L |
| Most childish children Earth has borne ' | - |
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| They spoke but that misshapen slave | N |
| Told never of the thing he heard | B |
| And unto men their portraits gave | N |
| In likenesses of beast and bird | B |
Andrew Lang
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