The Fool Who Sold Wisdom Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDEFFD GGHHIIJJIIKKLLMMDDN OOOPPQ| A | |
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| Of fools come never in the reach | B |
| No rule can I more wisely teach | B |
| Nor can there be a better one | C |
| Than this distemper'd heads to shun | C |
| We often see them high and low | D |
| They tickle e'en the royal ear | E |
| As privileged and free from fear | F |
| They hurl about them joke and jeer | F |
| At pompous lord or silly beau | D |
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| A fool in town did wisdom cry | G |
| The people eager flock'd to buy | G |
| Each for his money got | H |
| Paid promptly on the spot | H |
| Besides a box upon the head | I |
| Two fathoms' length of thread | I |
| The most were vex'd but quite in vain | J |
| The public only mock'd their pain | J |
| The wiser they who nothing said | I |
| But pocketed the box and thread | I |
| To search the meaning of the thing | K |
| Would only laughs and hisses bring | K |
| Hath reason ever guaranteed | L |
| The wit of fools in speech or deed | L |
| 'Tis said of brainless heads in France | M |
| The cause of what they do is chance | M |
| One dupe however needs must know | D |
| What meant the thread and what the blow | D |
| So ask'd a sage to make it sure | N |
| 'They're both hieroglyphics pure ' | - |
| The sage replied without delay | O |
| 'All people well advised will stay | O |
| From fools this fibre's length away | O |
| Or get I hold it sure as fate | P |
| The other symbol on the pate | P |
| So far from cheating you of gold | Q |
| The fool this wisdom fairly sold ' | - |
Jean De La Fontaine
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