The Hare And The Frogs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC DEEFFGHIII IIIIJKKJLL MIINNIIO| A | |
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| Once in his bed deep mused the hare | B |
| What else but muse could he do there | B |
| And soon by gloom was much afflicted | C |
| To gloom the creature's much addicted | C |
| 'Alas these constitutions nervous ' | - |
| He cried 'how wretchedly they serve us | D |
| We timid people by their action | E |
| Can't eat nor sleep with satisfaction | E |
| We can't enjoy a pleasure single | F |
| But with some misery it must mingle | F |
| Myself for one am forced by cursed fear | G |
| To sleep with open eye as well as ear | H |
| Correct yourself says some adviser | I |
| Grows fear by such advice the wiser | I |
| Indeed I well enough descry | I |
| That men have fear as well as I ' | - |
| With such revolving thoughts our hare | I |
| Kept watch in soul consuming care | I |
| A passing shade or leaflet's quiver | I |
| Would give his blood a boiling fever | I |
| Full soon his melancholy soul | J |
| Aroused from dreaming doze | K |
| By noise too slight for foes | K |
| He scuds in haste to reach his hole | J |
| He pass'd a pond and from its border bogs | L |
| Plunge after plunge in leap'd the timid frogs | L |
| 'Aha I do to them I see ' | - |
| He cried 'what others do to me | M |
| The sight of even me a hare | I |
| Sufficeth some I find to scare | I |
| And here the terror of my tramp | N |
| Hath put to rout it seems a camp | N |
| The trembling fools they take me for | I |
| The very thunderbolt of war | I |
| I see the coward never skulk'd a foe | O |
| That might not scare a coward still below ' | - |
Jean De La Fontaine
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