The Fool And The Sage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDDEFGG HCDIJJIDDDDJJ| A | |
| - | |
| A fool pursued with club and stone | B |
| A sage who said 'My friend well done | C |
| Receive this guinea for your pains | D |
| They well deserve far higher gains | D |
| The workman's worthy of his hire | E |
| 'Tis said There comes a wealthy squire | F |
| Who hath wherewith thy works to pay | G |
| To him direct thy gifts and they | G |
| Shall gain their proper recompense ' | - |
| Urged by the hope of gain | H |
| Upon the wealthy citizen | C |
| The fool repeated the offence | D |
| His pay this time was not in gold | I |
| Upon the witless man | J |
| A score of ready footmen ran | J |
| And on his back in full his wages told | I |
| In courts such fools afflict the wise | D |
| They raise the laugh at your expense | D |
| To check their babble were it sense | D |
| Their folly meetly to chastise | D |
| Perhaps 'twill take a stronger man | J |
| Then make them worry one who can | J |
Jean De La Fontaine
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