The Council Held By The Rats Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDCDEEFFGGHHIIBIB JJJKLLKMMNNB OO PPQQ RJRJ| A | |
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| Old Rodilard a certain cat | B |
| Such havoc of the rats had made | C |
| 'Twas difficult to find a rat | B |
| With nature's debt unpaid | C |
| The few that did remain | D |
| To leave their holes afraid | C |
| From usual food abstain | D |
| Not eating half their fill | E |
| And wonder no one will | E |
| That one who made of rats his revel | F |
| With rats pass'd not for cat but devil | F |
| Now on a day this dread rat eater | G |
| Who had a wife went out to meet her | G |
| And while he held his caterwauling | H |
| The unkill'd rats their chapter calling | H |
| Discuss'd the point in grave debate | I |
| How they might shun impending fate | I |
| Their dean a prudent rat | B |
| Thought best and better soon than late | I |
| To bell the fatal cat | B |
| That when he took his hunting round | J |
| The rats well caution'd by the sound | J |
| Might hide in safety under ground | J |
| Indeed he knew no other means | K |
| And all the rest | L |
| At once confess'd | L |
| Their minds were with the dean's | K |
| No better plan they all believed | M |
| Could possibly have been conceived | M |
| No doubt the thing would work right well | N |
| If any one would hang the bell | N |
| But one by one said every rat | B |
| 'I'm not so big a fool as that ' | - |
| The plan knock'd up in this respect | O |
| The council closed without effect | O |
| - | |
| And many a council I have seen | P |
| Or reverend chapter with its dean | P |
| That thus resolving wisely | Q |
| Fell through like this precisely | Q |
| - | |
| To argue or refute | R |
| Wise counsellors abound | J |
| The man to execute | R |
| Is harder to be found | J |
Jean De La Fontaine
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