The Fishes And The Shepherd Who Played The Flute Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEEFFGHHGIIJKLMLJ JMNOONPJHHJQ RSRTUURVRV WXYRYR| A | |
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| Thrysis who for his Annette dear | B |
| Made music with his flute and voice | C |
| Which might have roused the dead to hear | D |
| And in their silent graves rejoice | C |
| Sang once the livelong day | E |
| In the flowery month of May | E |
| Up and down a meadow brook | F |
| While Annette fish'd with line and hook | F |
| But ne'er a fish would bite | G |
| So the shepherdess's bait | H |
| Drew not a fish to its fate | H |
| From morning dawn till night | G |
| The shepherd who by his charming songs | I |
| Had drawn savage beasts to him in throngs | I |
| And done with them as he pleased to | J |
| Thought that he could serve the fish so | K |
| 'O citizens ' he sang 'of this water | L |
| Leave your Naiad in her grot profound | M |
| Come and see the blue sky's lovely daughter | L |
| Who a thousand times more will charm you | J |
| Fear not that her prison will harm you | J |
| Though there you should chance to get bound | M |
| 'Tis only to us men she is cruel | N |
| You she will treat kindly | O |
| A snug little pond she'll find ye | O |
| Clearer than a crystal jewel | N |
| Where you may all live and do well | P |
| Or if by chance some few | J |
| Should find their fate | H |
| Conceal'd in the bait | H |
| The happier still are you | J |
| For envied is the death that's met | Q |
| At the hands of sweet Annette ' | - |
| This eloquence not effecting | R |
| The object of his wishes | S |
| Since it failed in collecting | R |
| The deaf and dumb fishes | T |
| His sweet preaching wasted | U |
| His honey'd talk untasted | U |
| A net the shepherd seized and pouncing | R |
| With a fell scoop at the scaly fry | V |
| He caught them and now madly flouncing | R |
| At the feet of his Annette they lie | V |
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| O ye shepherds whose sheep men are | W |
| To trust in reason never dare | X |
| The arts of eloquence sublime | Y |
| Are not within your calling | R |
| Your fish were caught from oldest time | Y |
| By dint of nets and hauling | R |
Jean De La Fontaine
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