Jupiter And The Passenger Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDEE EE FEEFGHIIJKKJ ELLMMLEEEEEEEE| A | |
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| How danger would the gods enrich | B |
| If we the vows remember'd which | B |
| It drives us to But danger past | C |
| Kind Providence is paid the last | C |
| No earthly debt is treated so | D |
| 'Now Jove ' the wretch exclaims 'will wait | E |
| He sends no sheriff to one's gate | E |
| Like creditors below ' | - |
| But let me ask the dolt | E |
| What means the thunderbolt | E |
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| A passenger endanger'd by the sea | F |
| Had vow'd a hundred oxen good | E |
| To him who quell'd old Terra's brood | E |
| He had not one as well might he | F |
| Have vow'd a hundred elephants | G |
| Arrived on shore his good intents | H |
| Were dwindled to the smoke which rose | I |
| An offering merely for the nose | I |
| From half a dozen beefless bones | J |
| 'Great Jove ' said he 'behold my vow | K |
| The fumes of beef thou breathest now | K |
| Are all thy godship ever owns | J |
| From debt I therefore stand acquitted ' | - |
| With seeming smile the god submitted | E |
| But not long after caught him well | L |
| By sending him a dream to tell | L |
| Of treasure hid Off ran the liar | M |
| As if to quench a house on fire | M |
| And on a band of robbers fell | L |
| As but a crown he had that day | E |
| He promised them of sterling gold | E |
| A hundred talents truly told | E |
| Directing where conceal'd they lay | E |
| In such a village on their way | E |
| The rogues so much the tale suspected | E |
| Said one 'If we should suffer you to | E |
| You'd cheaply get us all detected | E |
| Go then and bear your gold to Pluto ' | - |
Jean De La Fontaine
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