The Gascon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EEFFFFFFBBFFGGFFHHHH IIFFFFHHFF| I AM always inclined to suspect | A |
| The best story under the sun | B |
| As soon as by chance I detect | A |
| That teller and hero are one | B |
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| We're all of us prone to conceit | C |
| And like to proclaim our own glory | D |
| But our purpose we're apt to defeat | C |
| As actors in chief of our story | D |
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| To prove the truth of what I state | E |
| Let me an anecdote relate | E |
| A Gascon with his comrade sat | F |
| At tavern drinking This and that | F |
| He vaunted with assertion pat | F |
| From gasconade to gasconade | F |
| Passed to the conquests he had made | F |
| In love A buxom country maid | F |
| Who served the wine with due attention | B |
| Lent patient ear to each invention | B |
| And pressed her hands against her side | F |
| Her bursting merriment to hide | F |
| To hear our Gascon talk no Sue | G |
| Nor Poll in town but that he knew | G |
| With each he'd passed a blissful night | F |
| More to their own than his delight | F |
| This one he loved for she was fair | H |
| That for her glossy ebon hair | H |
| One miss to tame his cruel rigour | H |
| Had brought him gifts She owned his vigour | H |
| In short it wanted but his gaze | I |
| To set each trembling heart ablaze | I |
| His strength surpassed his luck the test | F |
| In one short night ten times he'd blessed | F |
| A dame who gratefully expressed | F |
| Her thanks with corresponding zest | F |
| At this the maid burst forth What more | H |
| I never heard such lies before | H |
| Content were I if at that sport | F |
| I had what that poor dame was short | F |
Jean De La Fontaine
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