The Fox And The Stork Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDDDDEEDDFFGGDDHI GGJJKDDKLLMMNN EE| A | |
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| Old Mister Fox was at expense one day | B |
| To dine old Mistress Stork | C |
| The fare was light was nothing sooth to say | B |
| Requiring knife and fork | C |
| That sly old gentleman the dinner giver | D |
| Was you must understand a frugal liver | D |
| This once at least the total matter | D |
| Was thinnish soup served on a platter | D |
| For madam's slender beak a fruitless puzzle | E |
| Till all had pass'd the fox's lapping muzzle | E |
| But little relishing his laughter | D |
| Old gossip Stork some few days after | D |
| Return'd his Foxship's invitation | F |
| Without a moment's hesitation | F |
| He said he'd go for he must own he | G |
| Ne'er stood with friends for ceremony | G |
| And so precisely at the hour | D |
| He hied him to the lady's bower | D |
| Where praising her politeness | H |
| He finds her dinner right nice | I |
| Its punctuality and plenty | G |
| Its viands cut in mouthfuls dainty | G |
| Its fragrant smell were powerful to excite | J |
| Had there been need his foxish appetite | J |
| But now the dame to torture him | K |
| Such wit was in her | D |
| Served up her dinner | D |
| In vases made so tall and slim | K |
| They let their owner's beak pass in and out | L |
| But not by any means the fox's snout | L |
| All arts without avail | M |
| With drooping head and tail | M |
| As ought a fox a fowl had cheated | N |
| The hungry guest at last retreated | N |
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| Ye knaves for you is this recital | E |
| You'll often meet Dame Stork's requital | E |
Jean De La Fontaine
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