Education. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCBDEEFFGGHIIHHBBF FJJKKKK BBKK| Lapluck and Caesar brothers were descended | A |
| From dogs by Fame the most commended | B |
| Who falling in their puppyhood | B |
| To different masters anciently | C |
| One dwelt and hunted in the boundless wood | B |
| From thieves the other kept a kitchen free | D |
| At first each had another name | E |
| But by their bringing up it came | E |
| While one improved upon his nature | F |
| The other grew a sordid creature | F |
| Till by some scullion called Lapluck | G |
| The name ungracious ever stuck | G |
| To high exploits his brother grew | H |
| Put many a stag at bay and tore | I |
| Full many a trophy from the boar | I |
| In short him first of all his crew | H |
| The world as Caesar knew | H |
| And care was had lest by a baser mate | B |
| His noble blood should e'er degenerate | B |
| Not so with his neglected brother | F |
| He made whatever came a mother | F |
| And by the laws of population | J |
| His race became a countless nation | J |
| The common turnspits throughout France | K |
| Where danger is they don't advance | K |
| Precisely the antipodes | K |
| Of what we call the Caesars these | K |
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| Oft falls the son below his sire's estate | B |
| Through want of care all things degenerate | B |
| For lack of nursing Nature and her gifts | K |
| What crowds from gods become mere kitchen thrifts | K |
Jean De La Fontaine
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