The Frogs Asking A King Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDBBDDEEFFGGHIJKJL LMMEENNO PEEPQQRRSSTUV| A | |
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| A certain commonwealth aquatic | B |
| Grown tired of order democratic | B |
| By clamouring in the ears of Jove effected | C |
| Its being to a monarch's power subjected | D |
| Jove flung it down at first a king pacific | B |
| Who nathless fell with such a splash terrific | B |
| The marshy folks a foolish race and timid | D |
| Made breathless haste to get from him hid | D |
| They dived into the mud beneath the water | E |
| Or found among the reeds and rushes quarter | E |
| And long it was they dared not see | F |
| The dreadful face of majesty | F |
| Supposing that some monstrous frog | G |
| Had been sent down to rule the bog | G |
| The king was really a log | H |
| Whose gravity inspired with awe | I |
| The first that from his hiding place | J |
| Forth venturing astonish'd saw | K |
| The royal blockhead's face | J |
| With trembling and with fear | L |
| At last he drew quite near | L |
| Another follow'd and another yet | M |
| Till quite a crowd at last were met | M |
| Who growing fast and strangely bolder | E |
| Perch'd soon upon the royal shoulder | E |
| His gracious majesty kept still | N |
| And let his people work their will | N |
| Clack clack what din beset the ears of Jove | O |
| 'We want a king ' the people said 'to move ' | - |
| The god straight sent them down a crane | P |
| Who caught and slew them without measure | E |
| And gulp'd their carcasses at pleasure | E |
| Whereat the frogs more wofully complain | P |
| 'What what ' great Jupiter replied | Q |
| 'By your desires must I be tied | Q |
| Think you such government is bad | R |
| You should have kept what first you had | R |
| Which having blindly fail'd to do | S |
| It had been prudent still for you | S |
| To let that former king suffice | T |
| More meek and mild if not so wise | U |
| With this now make yourselves content | V |
| Lest for your sins a worse be sent ' | - |
Jean De La Fontaine
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