Hans Carvel's Ring Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFGHDDIJKKLL MMNNOODDPPQQ| HANS CARVEL took when weak and late in life | A |
| A girl with youth and beauteous charms to wife | A |
| And with her num'rous troubles cares and fears | B |
| For scarcely one without the rest appears | B |
| Bab such her name and daughter of a knight | C |
| Was airy buxom formed for am'rous fight | C |
| Hans holding jeers and cuckoldom in dread | D |
| Would have his precious rib with caution tread | D |
| And nothing but the Bible e'er peruse | E |
| All other books he daily would abuse | F |
| Blamed secret visits frowned at loose attire | G |
| And censured ev'ry thing gallants admire | H |
| The dame howe'er was deaf to all he said | D |
| No preaching pleased but what to pleasure led | D |
| Which made the aged husband hold his tongue | I |
| And wish for death since all round went wrong | J |
| Some easy moments he perhaps might get | K |
| A full detail in hist'ry's page is met | K |
| One night when company he'd had to dine | L |
| And pretty well was fill'd with gen'rous wine | L |
| Hans dreamed as near his wife he snoring lay | M |
| The devil came his compliments to pay | M |
| And having on his finger put a ring | N |
| Said he friend Hans I know thou feel'st a sting | N |
| Thy trouble 's great I pity much thy case | O |
| Let but this ring howe'er thy finger grace | O |
| And while 'tis there I'll answer with my head | D |
| THAT ne'er shall happen which is now thy dread | D |
| Hans quite delighted forced his finger through | P |
| You drunken beast cried Bab what would you do | P |
| To love's devoirs quite lost you take no care | Q |
| And now have thrust your finger God knows where | Q |
Jean De La Fontaine
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