The Avaricious Wife And Tricking Gallant Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFFGG HHII JJKKLLMMNNOOCC PQRRSS TTUU SSVVWW XYSSDD JJZZA2A2PPB2B2 C2C2D2D2 E2E2| WHO knows the world will never feel surprise | A |
| When men are duped by artful women's eves | B |
| Though death his weapon freely will unfold | C |
| Love's pranks we find are ever ruled by gold | C |
| To vain coquettes I doubtless here allude | D |
| But spite of arts with which they're oft endued | D |
| I hope to show our honour to maintain | E |
| We can among a hundred of the train | E |
| Catch one at least and play some cunning trick | F |
| For instance take blithe Gulphar's wily nick | F |
| Who gained old soldier like his ardent aim | G |
| And gratis got an avaricious dame | G |
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| LOOK well at this ye heroes of the sword | H |
| Howe'er with wily freaks your heads be stored | H |
| Beyond a doubt at court I now could find | I |
| A host of lovers of the Gulphar kind | I |
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| To Gasperin's so often went our wight | J |
| The wife at length became his sole delight | J |
| Whose youth and beauty were by all confessed | K |
| But 'midst these charms such av'rice she possessed | K |
| The warmest love was checked a thing not rare | L |
| In modern times at least among the FAIR | L |
| 'Tis true as I've already said with such | M |
| Sighs naught avail and promises not much | M |
| Without a purse who wishes should express | N |
| Would vainly hope to gain a soft caress | N |
| The god of love no other charm employs | O |
| Then cards and dress and pleasure's cheering joys | O |
| From whose gay shops more cuckolds we behold | C |
| Than heroes sallied from Troy's horse of old | C |
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| BUT to our lady's humour let's adhere | P |
| Sighs passed for naught they entered not her ear | Q |
| 'Twas speaking only would the charmer please | R |
| The reader without doubt my meaning sees | R |
| Gay Gulphar plainly spoke and named a sum | S |
| A hundred pounds she listened was o'ercome | S |
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| OUR wight the cash by Gasperin was lent | T |
| And then the husband to the country went | T |
| Without suspecting that his loving mate | U |
| Designed with horns to ornament his pate | U |
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| THE money artful Gulphar gave the dame | S |
| While friends were round who could observe the same | S |
| Here said the spark a hundred pounds receive | V |
| 'Tis for your spouse the cash with you I leave | V |
| The lady fancied what the swain had said | W |
| Was policy and to concealment led | W |
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| NEXT morn our belle regaled the arch gallant | X |
| Fulfilled his promise and his eager want | Y |
| Day after day he followed up the game | S |
| For cash he took and int'rest on the same | S |
| Good payers get we always may conclude | D |
| Full measure served whatever is pursued | D |
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| WHEN Gasperin returned our crafty wight | J |
| Before the wife addressed her spouse at sight | J |
| Said he the cash I've to your lady paid | Z |
| Not having as I feared required its aid | Z |
| To save mistakes pray cross it in your book | A2 |
| The lady thunderstruck with terror shook | A2 |
| Allowed the payment 'twas a case too clear | P |
| In truth for character she 'gan to fear | P |
| But most howe'er she grudged the surplus joy | B2 |
| Bestowed on such a vile deceitful boy | B2 |
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| THE loss was doubtless great in ev'ry view | C2 |
| Around the town the wicked Gulphar flew | C2 |
| In all the streets at every house to tell | D2 |
| How nicely he had trick'd the greedy belle | D2 |
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| To blame him useless 'twere you must allow | E2 |
| The French such frolicks readily avow | E2 |
Jean De La Fontaine
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