The Ant And The Cricket Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEE EFFGGHHIII JJKKLLMMM NNOP| A silly young cricket accustomed to sing | A |
| Through the warm sunny months of gay summer and spring | A |
| Began to complain when he found that at home | B |
| His cupboard was empty and winter was come | C |
| Not a crumb to be found | D |
| On the snow covered ground | D |
| Not a flower could he see | E |
| Not a leaf on a tree | E |
| - | |
| Oh what will become says the cricket of me | E |
| At last by starvation and famine made bold | F |
| All dripping with wet and all trembling with cold | F |
| Away he set off to a miserly ant | G |
| To see if to keep him alive he would grant | G |
| Him shelter from rain | H |
| A mouthful of grain | H |
| He wished only to borrow | I |
| He'd repay it to morrow | I |
| If not helped he must die of starvation and sorrow | I |
| - | |
| Says the ant to the cricket I'm your servant and friend | J |
| But we ants never borrow we ants never lend | J |
| Pray tell me dear sir did you lay nothing by | K |
| When the weather was warm Said the cricket Not I | K |
| My heart was so light | L |
| That I sang day and night | L |
| For all nature looked gay | M |
| You sang sir you say | M |
| Go then said the ant and sing winter away | M |
| - | |
| Thus ending he hastily lifted the wicket | N |
| And out of the door turned the poor little cricket | N |
| Though this is a fable the moral is good | O |
| If you live without work you must live without food | P |
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