The Ape Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBDEDFGG HIHI| There is an ape in Paris | A |
| To which was given a wife | B |
| Like many a one that marries | C |
| This ape in brutal strife | B |
| Soon beat her out of life | B |
| Their infant cries perhaps not fed | D |
| But cries I ween in vain | E |
| The father laughs his wife is dead | D |
| And he has other loves again | F |
| Which he will also beat I think | G |
| Return'd from tavern drown'd in drink | G |
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| For aught that's good you need not look | H |
| Among the imitative tribe | I |
| A monkey be it or what makes a book | H |
| The worse I deem the aping scribe | I |
Jean De La Fontaine
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