The Burier And His Comrade Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCCDDEFGHGGIIJJKKK DDCCCDDDCCDDDDLMDDDD NNOOPPDDQQ DD| A close fist had his money hoarded | A |
| Beyond the room his till afforded | B |
| His avarice aye growing ranker | C |
| Whereby his mind of course grew blanker | C |
| He was perplex'd to choose a banker | C |
| For banker he must have he thought | D |
| Or all his heap would come to nought | D |
| 'I fear ' said he 'if kept at home | E |
| And other robbers should not come | F |
| It might be equal cause of grief | G |
| That I had proved myself the thief ' | H |
| The thief Is to enjoy one's pelf | G |
| To rob or steal it from one's self | G |
| My friend could but my pity reach you | I |
| This lesson I would gladly teach you | I |
| That wealth is weal no longer than | J |
| Diffuse and part with it you can | J |
| Without that power it is a woe | K |
| Would you for age keep back its flow | K |
| Age buried 'neath its joyless snow | K |
| With pains of getting care of got | D |
| Consumes the value every jot | D |
| Of gold that one can never spare | C |
| To take the load of such a care | C |
| Assistants were not very rare | C |
| The earth was that which pleased him best | D |
| Dismissing thought of all the rest | D |
| He with his friend his trustiest | D |
| A sort of shovel secretary | C |
| Went forth his hoard to bury | C |
| Safe done a few days afterward | D |
| The man must look beneath the sward | D |
| When what a mystery behold | D |
| The mine exhausted of its gold | D |
| Suspecting with the best of cause | L |
| His friend was privy to his loss | M |
| He bade him in a cautious mood | D |
| To come as soon as well he could | D |
| For still some other coins he had | D |
| Which to the rest he wish'd to add | D |
| Expecting thus to get the whole | N |
| The friend put back the sum he stole | N |
| Then came with all despatch | O |
| The other proved an overmatch | O |
| Resolved at length to save by spending | P |
| His practice thus most wisely mending | P |
| The total treasure home he carried | D |
| No longer hoarded it or buried | D |
| Chapfallen was the thief when gone | Q |
| He saw his prospects and his pawn | Q |
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| From this it may be stated | D |
| That knaves with ease are cheated | D |
Jean De La Fontaine
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