The City Mouse And The Country Mouse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GEGEHH| A City Mouse with ways polite | A |
| A Country Mouse invited | B |
| To sup with him and spend the night | A |
| Said Country Mouse De lighted | B |
| In truth it proved a royal treat | C |
| With everything that's good to eat | C |
| - | |
| Alas When they had just begun | D |
| To gobble their dinner | E |
| A knock was heard that made them run | D |
| The City Mouse seemed thinner | E |
| And as they scampered and turned tail | F |
| He saw the Country Mouse grow pale | F |
| - | |
| The knocking ceased A false alarm | G |
| The City Mouse grew braver | E |
| Come back he cried No no The farm | G |
| Where I'll not quake or quaver | E |
| Suits me replied the Country Mouse | H |
| You're welcome to your city house | H |
Jean De La Fontaine
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