Discord Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCDDEEFFFFDDGHHG GIDFFJJKLMMNNFFF OO| The goddess Discord having made on high | A |
| Among the gods a general grapple | B |
| And thence a lawsuit for an apple | B |
| Was turn'd out bag and baggage from the sky | A |
| The animal call'd man with open arms | C |
| Received the goddess of such naughty charms | C |
| Herself and Whether or no her brother | D |
| With Thine and mine her stingy mother | D |
| In this the lower universe | E |
| Our hemisphere she chose to curse | E |
| For reasons good she did not please | F |
| To visit our antipodes | F |
| Folks rude and savage like the beasts | F |
| Who wedding free from forms and priests | F |
| In simple tent or leafy bower | D |
| Make little work for such a power | D |
| That she might know exactly where | G |
| Her direful aid was in demand | H |
| Renown flew courier through the land | H |
| Reporting each dispute with care | G |
| Then she outrunning Peace was quickly there | G |
| And if she found a spark of ire | I |
| Was sure to blow it to a fire | D |
| At length Renown got out of patience | F |
| At random hurrying o'er the nations | F |
| And not without good reason thought | J |
| A goddess like her mistress ought | J |
| To have some fix'd and certain home | K |
| To which her customers might come | L |
| For now they often search'd in vain | M |
| With due location it was plain | M |
| She might accomplish vastly more | N |
| And more in season than before | N |
| To find howe'er the right facilities | F |
| Was harder then than now it is | F |
| For then there were no nunneries | F |
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| So Hymen's inn at last assign'd | O |
| Thence lodged the goddess to her mind | O |
Jean De La Fontaine
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