Death And The Woodman.[1] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCDDBEEBFFGH IBIB| A poor wood chopper with his fagot load | A |
| Whom weight of years as well as load oppress'd | B |
| Sore groaning in his smoky hut to rest | B |
| Trudged wearily along his homeward road | A |
| At last his wood upon the ground he throws | C |
| And sits him down to think o'er all his woes | C |
| To joy a stranger since his hapless birth | D |
| What poorer wretch upon this rolling earth | D |
| No bread sometimes and ne'er a moment's rest | B |
| Wife children soldiers landlords public tax | E |
| All wait the swinging of his old worn axe | E |
| And paint the veriest picture of a man unblest | B |
| On Death he calls Forthwith that monarch grim | F |
| Appears and asks what he should do for him | F |
| 'Not much indeed a little help I lack | G |
| To put these fagots on my back ' | H |
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| Death ready stands all ills to cure | I |
| But let us not his cure invite | B |
| Than die 'tis better to endure | I |
| Is both a manly maxim and a right | B |
Jean De La Fontaine
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