The Ass Loaded With Sponges, And The Ass Loaded With Salt Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBDEECCFFBBGHHGIIBJ JBKKLMNNOPPOQQRR| A | |
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| A man whom I shall call an ass eteer | B |
| His sceptre like some Roman emperor bearing | C |
| Drove on two coursers of protracted ear | B |
| The one with sponges laden briskly faring | D |
| The other lifting legs | E |
| As if he trod on eggs | E |
| With constant need of goading | C |
| And bags of salt for loading | C |
| O'er hill and dale our merry pilgrims pass'd | F |
| Till coming to a river's ford at last | F |
| They stopp'd quite puzzled on the shore | B |
| Our asseteer had cross'd the stream before | B |
| So on the lighter beast astride | G |
| He drives the other spite of dread | H |
| Which loath indeed to go ahead | H |
| Into a deep hole turns aside | G |
| And facing right about | I |
| Where he went in comes out | I |
| For duckings two or three | B |
| Had power the salt to melt | J |
| So that the creature felt | J |
| His burden'd shoulders free | B |
| The sponger like a sequent sheep | K |
| Pursuing through the water deep | K |
| Into the same hole plunges | L |
| Himself his rider and the sponges | M |
| All three drank deeply asseteer and ass | N |
| For boon companions of their load might pass | N |
| Which last became so sore a weight | O |
| The ass fell down | P |
| Belike to drown | P |
| His rider risking equal fate | O |
| A helper came no matter who | Q |
| The moral needs no more ado | Q |
| That all can't act alike | R |
| The point I wish'd to strike | R |
Jean De La Fontaine
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