The Funeral Of The Lioness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDEFFGGHHIIJJKL MNOMMPPQQ RSSTUVVVWWXXXYZA2A2B 2C2C2D2SSE2 F2F2LKQQHLHHG2G2QQH2 H2 I2I2 QJ2J2 MMVVV| A | |
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| The lion's consort died | B |
| Crowds gather'd at his side | B |
| Must needs console the prince | C |
| And thus their loyalty evince | C |
| By compliments of course | D |
| Which make affliction worse | E |
| Officially he cites | F |
| His realm to funeral rites | F |
| At such a time and place | G |
| His marshals of the mace | G |
| Would order the affair | H |
| Judge you if all came there | H |
| Meantime the prince gave way | I |
| To sorrow night and day | I |
| With cries of wild lament | J |
| His cave he well nigh rent | J |
| And from his courtiers far and near | K |
| Sounds imitative you might hear | L |
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| The court a country seems to me | M |
| Whose people are no matter what | N |
| Sad gay indifferent or not | O |
| As suits the will of majesty | M |
| Or if unable so to be | M |
| Their task it is to seem it all | P |
| Chameleons monkeys great and small | P |
| 'Twould seem one spirit serves a thousand bodies | Q |
| A paradise indeed for soulless noddies | Q |
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| But to our tale again | R |
| The stag graced not the funeral train | S |
| Of tears his cheeks bore not a stain | S |
| For how could such a thing have been | T |
| When death avenged him on the queen | U |
| Who not content with taking one | V |
| Had choked to death his wife and son | V |
| The tears in truth refused to run | V |
| A flatterer who watch'd the while | W |
| Affirm'd that he had seen him smile | W |
| If as the wise man somewhere saith | X |
| A king's is like a lion's wrath | X |
| What should King Lion's be but death | X |
| The stag however could not read | Y |
| Hence paid this proverb little heed | Z |
| And walk'd intrepid to'ards the throne | A2 |
| When thus the king in fearful tone | A2 |
| 'Thou caitiff of the wood | B2 |
| Presum'st to laugh at such a time | C2 |
| Joins not thy voice the mournful chime | C2 |
| We suffer not the blood | D2 |
| Of such a wretch profane | S |
| Our sacred claws to stain | S |
| Wolves let a sacrifice be made | E2 |
| Avenge your mistress' awful shade ' | - |
| 'Sire ' did the stag reply | F2 |
| The time for tears is quite gone by | F2 |
| For in the flowers not far from here | L |
| Your worthy consort did appear | K |
| Her form in spite of my surprise | Q |
| I could not fail to recognise | Q |
| My friend said she beware | H |
| Lest funeral pomp about my bier | L |
| When I shall go with gods to share | H |
| Compel thine eye to drop a tear | H |
| With kindred saints I rove | G2 |
| In the Elysian grove | G2 |
| And taste a sort of bliss | Q |
| Unknown in worlds like this | Q |
| Still let the royal sorrow flow | H2 |
| Its proper season here below | H2 |
| 'Tis not unpleasing I confess ' | - |
| The king and court scarce hear him out | I2 |
| Up goes the loud and welcome shout | I2 |
| 'A miracle an apotheosis ' | - |
| And such at once the fashion is | Q |
| So far from dying in a ditch | J2 |
| The stag retires with presents rich | J2 |
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| Amuse the ear of royalty | M |
| With pleasant dreams and flattery | M |
| No matter what you may have done | V |
| Nor yet how high its wrath may run | V |
| The bait is swallow'd object won | V |
Jean De La Fontaine
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