The Fox With His Tail Cut Off Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFGHHI J KKLL| A | |
| - | |
| A cunning old fox of plundering habits | B |
| Great crauncher of fowls great catcher of rabbits | B |
| Whom none of his sort had caught in a nap | C |
| Was finally caught in somebody's trap | C |
| By luck he escaped not wholly and hale | D |
| For the price of his luck was the loss of his tail | D |
| Escaped in this way to save his disgrace | E |
| He thought to get others in similar case | E |
| One day that the foxes in council were met | F |
| 'Why wear we ' said he 'this cumbering weight | G |
| Which sweeps in the dirt wherever it goes | H |
| Pray tell me its use if any one knows | H |
| If the council will take my advice | I |
| We shall dock off our tails in a trice ' | - |
| 'Your advice may be good ' said one on the ground | J |
| 'But ere I reply pray turn yourself round ' | - |
| Whereat such a shout from the council was heard | K |
| Poor bob tail confounded could say not a word | K |
| To urge the reform would have wasted his breath | L |
| Long tails were the mode till the day of his death | L |
Jean De La Fontaine
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