Don't Tease The Lion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDED FGHGIJKL AMDMANAN HOHODNFN| If you saw a lion | A |
| Not within a cage | B |
| Would you tease and fret him | C |
| Till he roared in rage | B |
| Would you tempt his anger | D |
| And his savage power | D |
| Knowing he could crush you | E |
| Kill you and devour | D |
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| Yet I know some people | F |
| Who morn and noon and night | G |
| Tease and fret with bitters | H |
| The lion appetite | G |
| It matters not what ails them | I |
| For each disease and all | J |
| They seem to think there's healing | K |
| In demon alcohol | L |
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| So they fret the lion | A |
| And anger him until | M |
| In his awful power | D |
| He springs up to kill | M |
| Let me warn you children | A |
| From this foolish way | N |
| Do not tease the lion | A |
| Nor tempt him any day | N |
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| Don't believe the doctors | H |
| If they say you need | O |
| Any wines or ciders | H |
| For there are indeed | O |
| Better cures and safer | D |
| Than these drinks that slay | N |
| More than a hundred people | F |
| Without fail each day | N |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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