Simonides Preserved By The Gods.[1] Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Three sorts there are as Malherbe says	A
Which one can never overpraise	A
The gods the ladies and the king	B
And I for one endorse the thing	B
The heart praise tickles and entices	A
Of fair one's smile it oft the price is	A
See how the gods sometimes repay it	C
Simonides the ancients say it	C
Once undertook in poem lyric	D
To write a wrestler's panegyric	D
Which ere he had proceeded far in	E
He found his subject somewhat barren	F
No ancestors of great renown	G
His sire of some unnoted town	G
Himself as little known to fame	H
The wrestler's praise was rather tame	H
The poet having made the most of	I
Whate'er his hero had to boast of	I
Digress'd by choice that was not all luck's	A
To Castor and his brother Pollux	A
Whose bright career was subject ample	J
For wrestlers sure a good example	J
Our poet fatten'd on their story	K
Gave every fight its place and glory	K
Till of his panegyric words	A
These deities had got two thirds	A
All done the poet's fee	K
A talent was to be	K
But when he comes his bill to settle	J
The wrestler with a spice of mettle	J
Pays down a third and tells the poet	L
'The balance they may pay who owe it	C
The gods than I are rather debtors	A
To such a pious man of letters	A
But still I shall be greatly pleased	M
To have your presence at my feast	N
Among a knot of guests select	O
My kin and friends I most respect '	P
More fond of character than coffer	Q
Simonides accepts the offer	Q
While at the feast the party sit	C
And wine provokes the flow of wit	C
It is announced that at the gate	R
Two men in haste that cannot wait	R
Would see the bard He leaves the table	J
No loss at all to 'ts noisy gabble	J
The men were Leda's twins who knew	S
What to a poet's praise was due	S
And thanking paid him by foretelling	D
The downfall of the wrestler's dwelling	D
From which ill fated pile indeed	T
No sooner was the poet freed	T
Than props and pillars failing	D
Which held aloft the ceiling	D
So splendid o'er them	U
It downward loudly crash'd	V
The plates and flagons dash'd	V
And men who bore them	U
And what was worse	A
Full vengeance for the man of verse	A
A timber broke the wrestler's thighs	A
And wounded many otherwise	A
The gossip Fame of course took care	W
Abroad to publish this affair	W
'A miracle ' the public cried delighted	X
No more could god beloved bard be slighted	Y
His verse now brought him more than double	J
With neither duns nor care nor trouble	J
Whoe'er laid claim to noble birth	Z
Must buy his ancestors a slice	A
Resolved no nobleman on earth	Z
Should overgo him in the price	A
From which these serious lessons flow	J
Fail not your praises to bestow	J
On gods and godlike men Again	A2
To sell the product of her pain	B2
Is not degrading to the Muse	A
Indeed her art they do abuse	A
Who think her wares to use	A
And yet a liberal pay refuse	A
Whate'er the great confer upon her	Q
They're honour'd by it while they honour	Q
Of old Olympus and Parnassus	A
In friendship heaved their sky crown'd masses	A

Jean De La Fontaine

Simonides Preserved By The Gods.[1] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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