The Bat And The Two Weasels Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDDCEEFFCCG HHIJJI KK BBLBBLBMMBBBNNO PP LLQ| A | |
| - | |
| A blundering bat once stuck her head | B |
| Into a wakeful weasel's bed | B |
| Whereat the mistress of the house | C |
| A deadly foe of rats and mice | D |
| Was making ready in a trice | D |
| To eat the stranger as a mouse | C |
| 'What do you dare ' she said 'to creep in | E |
| The very bed I sometimes sleep in | E |
| Now after all the provocation | F |
| I've suffer'd from your thievish nation | F |
| Are you not really a mouse | C |
| That gnawing pest of every house | C |
| Your special aim to do the cheese ill | G |
| Ay that you are or I'm no weasel ' | - |
| 'I beg your pardon ' said the bat | H |
| 'My kind is very far from that | H |
| What I a mouse Who told you such a lie | I |
| Why ma'am I am a bird | J |
| And if you doubt my word | J |
| Just see the wings with which I fly | I |
| Long live the mice that cleave the sky ' | - |
| These reasons had so fair a show | K |
| The weasel let the creature go | K |
| - | |
| By some strange fancy led | B |
| The same wise blunderhead | B |
| But two or three days later | L |
| Had chosen for her rest | B |
| Another weasel's nest | B |
| This last of birds a special hater | L |
| New peril brought this step absurd | B |
| Without a moment's thought or puzzle | M |
| Dame weasel oped her peaked muzzle | M |
| To eat th' intruder as a bird | B |
| 'Hold do not wrong me ' cried the bat | B |
| 'I'm truly no such thing as that | B |
| Your eyesight strange conclusions gathers | N |
| What makes a bird I pray Its feathers | N |
| I'm cousin of the mice and rats | O |
| Great Jupiter confound the cats ' | - |
| The bat by such adroit replying | P |
| Twice saved herself from dying | P |
| - | |
| And many a human stranger | L |
| Thus turns his coat in danger | L |
| And sings as suits where'er he goes | Q |
| 'God save the king ' or 'save his foes ' | - |
Jean De La Fontaine
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