The Cat And The Fox Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDCEEFFGGHHIJJKLL MNOPMOQQNNRMRSTSTUTU VVUU WXWX| The cat and fox when saints were all the rage | A |
| Together went on pilgrimage | B |
| Arch hypocrites and swindlers they | C |
| By sleight of face and sleight of paw | D |
| Regardless both of right and law | D |
| Contrived expenses to repay | C |
| By eating many a fowl and cheese | E |
| And other tricks as bad as these | E |
| Disputing served them to beguile | F |
| The road of many a weary mile | F |
| Disputing but for this resort | G |
| The world would go to sleep in short | G |
| Our pilgrims as a thing of course | H |
| Disputed till their throats were hoarse | H |
| Then dropping to a lower tone | I |
| They talk'd of this and talk'd of that | J |
| Till Renard whisper'd to the cat | J |
| 'You think yourself a knowing one | K |
| How many cunning tricks have you | L |
| For I've a hundred old and new | L |
| All ready in my haversack ' | M |
| The cat replied 'I do not lack | N |
| Though with but one provided | O |
| And truth to honour for that matter | P |
| I hold it than a thousand better ' | M |
| In fresh dispute they sided | O |
| And loudly were they at it when | Q |
| Approach'd a mob of dogs and men | Q |
| 'Now ' said the cat 'your tricks ransack | N |
| And put your cunning brains to rack | N |
| One life to save I'll show you mine | R |
| A trick you see for saving nine ' | M |
| With that she climb'd a lofty pine | R |
| The fox his hundred ruses tried | S |
| And yet no safety found | T |
| A hundred times he falsified | S |
| The nose of every hound | T |
| Was here and there and everywhere | U |
| Above and under ground | T |
| But yet to stop he did not dare | U |
| Pent in a hole it was no joke | V |
| To meet the terriers or the smoke | V |
| So leaping into upper air | U |
| He met two dogs that choked him there | U |
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| Expedients may be too many | W |
| Consuming time to choose and try | X |
| On one but that as good as any | W |
| 'Tis best in danger to rely | X |
Jean De La Fontaine
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