Nothing Too Much Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEE FFGHHGIIJJKCCLMNNM OCOC PPQQRRSS| A | |
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| Look where we will throughout creation | B |
| We look in vain for moderation | B |
| There is a certain golden mean | C |
| Which Nature's sovereign Lord I ween | C |
| Design'd the path of all forever | D |
| Doth one pursue it Never | D |
| E'en things which by their nature bless | E |
| Are turn'd to curses by excess | E |
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| The grain best gift of Ceres fair | F |
| Green waving in the genial air | F |
| By overgrowth exhausts the soil | G |
| By superfluity of leaves | H |
| Defrauds the treasure of its sheaves | H |
| And mocks the busy farmer's toil | G |
| Not less redundant is the tree | I |
| So sweet a thing is luxury | I |
| The grain within due bounds to keep | J |
| Their Maker licenses the sheep | J |
| The leaves excessive to retrench | K |
| In troops they spread across the plain | C |
| And nibbling down the hapless grain | C |
| Contrive to spoil it root and branch | L |
| So then with licence from on high | M |
| The wolves are sent on sheep to prey | N |
| The whole the greedy gluttons slay | N |
| Or if they don't they try | M |
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| Next men are sent on wolves to take | O |
| The vengeance now condign | C |
| In turn the same abuse they make | O |
| Of this behest divine | C |
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| Of animals the human kind | P |
| Are to excess the most inclined | P |
| On low and high we make the charge | Q |
| Indeed upon the race at large | Q |
| There liveth not the soul select | R |
| That sinneth not in this respect | R |
| Of Nought too much the fact is | S |
| All preach the truth none practise | S |
Jean De La Fontaine
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