The Astrologer Who Stumbled Into A Well Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBC DEFEGHIJIKKKLLMNNMOO PPQQRRSSPPRRNNRRRRRR RRRIITTUV| A | |
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| To an astrologer who fell | B |
| Plump to the bottom of a well | B |
| 'Poor blockhead ' cried a passer by | C |
| 'Not see your feet and read the sky ' | - |
| - | |
| This upshot of a story will suffice | D |
| To give a useful hint to most | E |
| For few there are in this our world so wise | F |
| As not to trust in star or ghost | E |
| Or cherish secretly the creed | G |
| That men the book of destiny may read | H |
| This book by Homer and his pupils sung | I |
| What is it in plain common sense | J |
| But what was chance those ancient folks among | I |
| And with ourselves God's providence | K |
| Now chance doth bid defiance | K |
| To every thing like science | K |
| 'Twere wrong if not | L |
| To call it hazard fortune lot | L |
| Things palpably uncertain | M |
| But from the purposes divine | N |
| The deep of infinite design | N |
| Who boasts to lift the curtain | M |
| Whom but himself doth God allow | O |
| To read his bosom thoughts and how | O |
| Would he imprint upon the stars sublime | P |
| The shrouded secrets of the night of time | P |
| And all for what To exercise the wit | Q |
| Of those who on astrology have writ | Q |
| To help us shun inevitable ills | R |
| To poison for us even pleasure's rills | R |
| The choicest blessings to destroy | S |
| Exhausting ere they come their joy | S |
| Such faith is worse than error 'tis a crime | P |
| The sky host moves and marks the course of time | P |
| The sun sheds on our nicely measured days | R |
| The glory of his night dispelling rays | R |
| And all from this we can divine | N |
| Is that they need to rise and shine | N |
| To roll the seasons ripen fruits | R |
| And cheer the hearts of men and brutes | R |
| How tallies this revolving universe | R |
| With human things eternally diverse | R |
| Ye horoscopers waning quacks | R |
| Please turn on Europe's courts your backs | R |
| And taking on your travelling lists | R |
| The bellows blowing alchemists | R |
| Budge off together to the land of mists | R |
| But I've digress'd Return we now bethinking | I |
| Of our poor star man whom we left a drinking | I |
| Besides the folly of his lying trade | T |
| This man the type may well be made | T |
| Of those who at chimeras stare | U |
| When they should mind the things that are | V |
Jean De La Fontaine
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