The Dog Whose Ears Were Cropped Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBACDDEFEGHHIIE AAEJJEKKLL| 'What have I done I'd like to know | A |
| To make my master maim me so | A |
| A pretty figure I shall cut | B |
| From other dogs I'll keep in kennel shut | B |
| Ye kings of beasts or rather tyrants ho | A |
| Would any beast have served you so ' | C |
| Thus Growler cried a mastiff young | D |
| The man whom pity never stung | D |
| Went on to prune him of his ears | E |
| Though Growler whined about his losses | F |
| He found before the lapse of years | E |
| Himself a gainer by the process | G |
| For being by his nature prone | H |
| To fight his brethren for a bone | H |
| He'd oft come back from sad reverse | I |
| With those appendages the worse | I |
| All snarling dogs have ragged ears | E |
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| The less of hold for teeth of foe | A |
| The better will the battle go | A |
| When in a certain place one fears | E |
| The chance of being hurt or beat | J |
| He fortifies it from defeat | J |
| Besides the shortness of his ears | E |
| See Growler arm'd against his likes | K |
| With gorget full of ugly spikes | K |
| A wolf would find it quite a puzzle | L |
| To get a hold about his muzzle | L |
Jean De La Fontaine
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