The Dragon With Many Heads, And The Dragon With Many Tails.[1] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFGGHHIIJJKK DDDDJJDIIJE| An envoy of the Porte Sublime | A |
| As history says once on a time | A |
| Before th' imperial German court | B |
| Did rather boastfully report | B |
| The troops commanded by his master's firman | C |
| As being a stronger army than the German | C |
| To which replied a Dutch attendant | D |
| 'Our prince has more than one dependant | D |
| Who keeps an army at his own expense ' | E |
| The Turk a man of sense | F |
| Rejoin'd 'I am aware | G |
| What power your emperor's servants share | G |
| It brings to mind a tale both strange and true | H |
| A thing which once myself I chanced to view | H |
| I saw come darting through a hedge | I |
| Which fortified a rocky ledge | I |
| A hydra's hundred heads and in a trice | J |
| My blood was turning into ice | J |
| But less the harm than terror | K |
| The body came no nearer | K |
| Nor could unless it had been sunder'd | D |
| To parts at least a hundred | D |
| While musing deeply on this sight | D |
| Another dragon came to light | D |
| Whose single head avails | J |
| To lead a hundred tails | J |
| And seized with juster fright | D |
| I saw him pass the hedge | I |
| Head body tails a wedge | I |
| Of living and resistless powers | J |
| The other was your emperor's force this ours ' | E |
Jean De La Fontaine
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