Intangible Tigers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGFGHIHI JBJBAKAD| There's a moral in this tho' I own that the preaching | A |
| Of moral and maxim in season and out | B |
| Grows stale yet these days of depressions far reaching | A |
| Demand any means to put worry to rout | B |
| So in that menagerie now populated | C |
| By home coming chickens and wolves upon mats | D |
| Consider when finally doubt's dissipated | E |
| How often our tigers turn out to be cats | D |
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| Three fourths of our troubles some Frenchman has told us | F |
| But seldom occur Tho' the ills of the mind | G |
| Loom forth as fierce tigers while doubts yet unfold us | F |
| They turn into cats once we've put them behind | G |
| How often the dread of some darkened tomorrow | H |
| Has ruined today till at Time's urgent call | I |
| Tomorrow's false fears become yester's small sorrow | H |
| Innocuous cats and not tigers at all | I |
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| So here is the moral just take it or leave it | J |
| It doesn't much matter you'll scorn it no doubt | B |
| Yet here is a truth and if men don't receive it | J |
| I've still done my duty in pointing it out | B |
| False troubles false tigers engender false fearing | A |
| So use the grey matter close under your hat | K |
| And as you fare forth thro' life's dark forests peering | A |
| Go armed against tigers but still expect cats | D |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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