The Drunkard And His Wife Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEEFGGHHIIJJ KKLMCLNN OP Q| A | |
| - | |
| Each has his fault to which he clings | B |
| In spite of shame or fear | C |
| This apophthegm a story brings | B |
| To make its truth more clear | C |
| A sot had lost health mind and purse | D |
| And truly for that matter | E |
| Sots mostly lose the latter | E |
| Ere running half their course | F |
| When wine one day of wit had fill'd the room | G |
| His wife inclosed him in a spacious tomb | G |
| There did the fumes evaporate | H |
| At leisure from his drowsy pate | H |
| When he awoke he found | I |
| His body wrapp'd around | I |
| With grave clothes chill and damp | J |
| Beneath a dim sepulchral lamp | J |
| 'How's this My wife a widow sad ' | - |
| He cried 'and I a ghost Dead dead ' | - |
| Thereat his spouse with snaky hair | K |
| And robes like those the Furies wear | K |
| With voice to fit the realms below | L |
| Brought boiling caudle to his bier | M |
| For Lucifer the proper cheer | C |
| By which her husband came to know | L |
| For he had heard of those three ladies | N |
| Himself a citizen of Hades | N |
| 'What may your office be ' | - |
| The phantom question'd he | O |
| 'I'm server up of Pluto's meat | P |
| And bring his guests the same to eat ' | - |
| 'Well ' says the sot not taking time to think | Q |
| 'And don't you bring us anything to drink ' | - |
Jean De La Fontaine
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