The Beasts In The Tower Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDE FFGGFFGGGGGG HHGGIIJJGGFFKKED KKFFLLFFFFGGFFFFFF MMGGFFNN| Within the precincts of this yard | A |
| Each in his narrow confines barred | A |
| Dwells every beast that can be found | B |
| On Afric or on Indian ground | B |
| How different was the life they led | C |
| In those wild haunts where they were bred | C |
| To this tame servitude and fear | D |
| Enslaved by man they suffer here | E |
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| In that uneasy close recess | F |
| Couches a sleeping lioness | F |
| That next den holds a bear the next | G |
| A wolf by hunger ever vext | G |
| There fiercer from the keeper's lashes | F |
| His teeth the fell hyena gnashes | F |
| That creature on whose back abound | G |
| Black spots upon a yellow ground | G |
| A panther is the fairest beast | G |
| That haunteth in the spacious East | G |
| He underneath a fair outside | G |
| Does cruelty and treachery hide | G |
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| That cat like beast that to and fro | H |
| Restless as fire does ever go | H |
| As if his courage did resent | G |
| His limbs in such confinement pent | G |
| That should their prey in forests take | I |
| And make the Indian jungles quake | I |
| A tiger is Observe how sleek | J |
| And glossy smooth his coat no streak | J |
| On satin ever matched the pride | G |
| Of that which marks his furry hide | G |
| How strong his muscles he with ease | F |
| Upon the tallest man could seize | F |
| In his large mouth away could bear him | K |
| And into thousand pieces tear him | K |
| Yet cabined so securely here | E |
| The smallest infant need not fear | D |
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| That lordly creature next to him | K |
| A lion is Survey each limb | K |
| Observe the texture of his claws | F |
| The massy thickness of those jaws | F |
| His mane that sweeps the ground in length | L |
| Like Samson's locks betokening strength | L |
| In force and swiftness he excels | F |
| Each beast that in the forest dwells | F |
| The savage tribes him king confess | F |
| Throughout the howling wilderness | F |
| Woe to the hapless neighbourhood | G |
| When he is pressed by want of food | G |
| Of man or child of bull or horse | F |
| He makes his prey such is his force | F |
| A waste behind him he creates | F |
| Whole villages depopulates | F |
| Yet here within appointed lines | F |
| How small a grate his rage confines | F |
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| This place methinks resembleth well | M |
| The world itself in which we dwell | M |
| Perils and snares on every ground | G |
| Like these wild beasts beset us round | G |
| But Providence their rage restrains | F |
| Our heavenly Keeper sets them chains | F |
| His goodness saveth every hour | N |
| His darlings from the lion's power | N |
Charles Lamb
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