The Frog That Wished To Be As Big As The Ox.[1] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCDEEFGHGIIJKJLMM| The tenant of a bog | A |
| An envious little frog | A |
| Not bigger than an egg | B |
| A stately bullock spies | C |
| And smitten with his size | C |
| Attempts to be as big | D |
| With earnestness and pains | E |
| She stretches swells and strains | E |
| And says 'Sis Frog look here see me | F |
| Is this enough ' 'No no ' | G |
| 'Well then is this ' 'Poh poh | H |
| Enough you don't begin to be ' | G |
| And thus the reptile sits | I |
| Enlarging till she splits | I |
| The world is full of folks | J |
| Of just such wisdom | K |
| The lordly dome provokes | J |
| The cit to build his dome | L |
| And really there is no telling | M |
| How much great men set little ones a swelling | M |
Jean De La Fontaine
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