The Frog And The Rat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBDEEFFGHGIJKKJLLMM NNOPQPRRNNPPSTTSSUVW DDWNNNXXYY ZDZD| A | |
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| They to bamboozle are inclined | B |
| Saith Merlin who bamboozled are | C |
| The word though rather unrefined | B |
| Has yet an energy we ill can spare | D |
| So by its aid I introduce my tale | E |
| A well fed rat rotund and hale | E |
| Not knowing either Fast or Lent | F |
| Disporting round a frog pond went | F |
| A frog approach'd and with a friendly greeting | G |
| Invited him to see her at her home | H |
| And pledged a dinner worth his eating | G |
| To which the rat was nothing loath to come | I |
| Of words persuasive there was little need | J |
| She spoke however of a grateful bath | K |
| Of sports and curious wonders on their path | K |
| Of rarities of flower and rush and reed | J |
| One day he would recount with glee | L |
| To his assembled progeny | L |
| The various beauties of these places | M |
| The customs of the various races | M |
| And laws that sway the realms aquatic | N |
| She did not mean the hydrostatic | N |
| One thing alone the rat perplex'd | O |
| He was but moderate as a swimmer | P |
| The frog this matter nicely fix'd | Q |
| By kindly lending him her | P |
| Long paw which with a rush she tied | R |
| To his and off they started side by side | R |
| Arrived upon the lakelet's brink | N |
| There was but little time to think | N |
| The frog leap'd in and almost brought her | P |
| Bound guest to land beneath the water | P |
| Perfidious breach of law and right | S |
| She meant to have a supper warm | T |
| Out of his sleek and dainty form | T |
| Already did her appetite | S |
| Dwell on the morsel with delight | S |
| The gods in anguish he invokes | U |
| His faithless hostess rudely mocks | V |
| He struggles up she struggles down | W |
| A kite that hovers in the air | D |
| Inspecting everything with care | D |
| Now spies the rat belike to drown | W |
| And with a rapid wing | N |
| Upbears the wretched thing | N |
| The frog too dangling by the string | N |
| The joy of such a double haul | X |
| Was to the hungry kite not small | X |
| It gave him all that he could wish | Y |
| A double meal of flesh and fish | Y |
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| The best contrived deceit | Z |
| Can hurt its own contriver | D |
| And perfidy doth often cheat | Z |
| Its author's purse of every stiver | D |
Jean De La Fontaine
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