The Fowler, The Hawk, And The Lark Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCC DDEEFFGGHHIIJJK L| A | |
| - | |
| From wrongs of wicked men we draw | B |
| Excuses for our own | C |
| Such is the universal law | B |
| Would you have mercy shown | C |
| Let yours be clearly known | C |
| - | |
| A fowler's mirror served to snare | D |
| The little tenants of the air | D |
| A lark there saw her pretty face | E |
| And was approaching to the place | E |
| A hawk that sailed on high | F |
| Like vapour in the sky | F |
| Came down as still as infant's breath | G |
| On her who sang so near her death | G |
| She thus escaped the fowler's steel | H |
| The hawk's malignant claws to feel | H |
| While in his cruel way | I |
| The pirate pluck'd his prey | I |
| Upon himself the net was sprung | J |
| 'O fowler ' pray'd he in the hawkish tongue | J |
| 'Release me in thy clemency | K |
| I never did a wrong to thee ' | - |
| The man replied ''Tis true | L |
| And did the lark to you ' | - |
Jean De La Fontaine
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