The Dog That Dropped The Substance For The Shadow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDDEEFFA | |
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This world is full of shadow chasers | B |
Most easily deceived | C |
Should I enumerate these racers | B |
I should not be believed | C |
I send them all to Aesop's dog | D |
Which crossing water on a log | D |
Espied the meat he bore below | E |
To seize its image let it go | E |
Plunged in to reach the shore was glad | F |
With neither what he hoped nor what he'd had | F |
Jean De La Fontaine
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