The Elephant And The Ape Of Jupiter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABBCCDEEDFFGGHIJKJ KJJLLMMNONPQPBRRSSPP TTPUPUVSSRP| 'Twixt elephant and beast of horned nose | A |
| About precedence a dispute arose | A |
| Which they determined to decide by blows | A |
| The day was fix'd when came a messenger | B |
| To say the ape of Jupiter | B |
| Was swiftly earthward seen to bear | C |
| His bright caduceus through the air | C |
| This monkey named in history Gill | D |
| The elephant at once believed | E |
| A high commission had received | E |
| To witness by his sovereign's will | D |
| The aforesaid battle fought | F |
| Uplifted by the glorious thought | F |
| The beast was prompt on Monsieur Gill to wait | G |
| But found him slow in usual forms of state | G |
| His high credentials to present | H |
| The ape however ere he went | I |
| Bestow'd a passing salutation | J |
| His excellency would have heard | K |
| The subject matter of legation | J |
| But not a word | K |
| His fight so far from stirring heaven | J |
| The news was not received there even | J |
| What difference sees the impartial sky | L |
| Between an elephant and fly | L |
| Our monarch doting on his object | M |
| Was forced himself to break the subject | M |
| 'My cousin Jupiter ' said he | N |
| 'Will shortly from his throne supreme | O |
| A most important combat see | N |
| For all his court a thrilling theme ' | P |
| 'What combat ' said the ape with serious face | Q |
| 'Is't possible you should not know the case ' | P |
| The elephant exclaim'd 'not know dear sir | B |
| That Lord Rhinoceros disputes | R |
| With me precedence of the brutes | R |
| That Elephantis is at war | S |
| With savage hosts of Rhinocer | S |
| You know these realms not void of fame ' | P |
| 'I joy to learn them now by name ' | P |
| Return'd Sir Gill 'for first or last | T |
| No lisp of them has ever pass'd | T |
| Throughout our dome so blue and vast ' | P |
| Abash'd the elephant replied | U |
| 'What came you then to do ' | P |
| 'Between two emmets to divide | U |
| A spire of grass in two | V |
| We take of all a care | S |
| And as to your affair | S |
| Before the gods who view with equal eyes | R |
| The small and great it hath not chanced to rise ' | P |
Jean De La Fontaine
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