The Hare And The Partridge. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ KLMKKDDDNNILOOFFPPQQ| Beware how you deride | A |
| The exiles from life's sunny side | A |
| To you is little known | B |
| How soon their case may be your own | B |
| On this sage Aesop gives a tale or two | C |
| As in my verses I propose to do | C |
| A field in common share | D |
| A partridge and a hare | D |
| And live in peaceful state | E |
| Till woeful to relate | E |
| The hunters' mingled cry | F |
| Compels the hare to fly | F |
| He hurries to his fort | G |
| And spoils almost the sport | G |
| By faulting every hound | H |
| That yelps upon the ground | H |
| At last his reeking heat | I |
| Betrays his snug retreat | I |
| Old Tray with philosophic nose | J |
| Snuffs carefully and grows | J |
| So certain that he cries | K |
| 'The hare is here bow wow ' | L |
| And veteran Ranger now | M |
| The dog that never lies | K |
| 'The hare is gone ' replies | K |
| Alas poor wretched hare | D |
| Back comes he to his lair | D |
| To meet destruction there | D |
| The partridge void of fear | N |
| Begins her friend to jeer | N |
| 'You bragg'd of being fleet | I |
| How serve you now your feet ' | L |
| Scarce has she ceased to speak | O |
| The laugh yet in her beak | O |
| When comes her turn to die | F |
| From which she could not fly | F |
| She thought her wings indeed | P |
| Enough for every need | P |
| But in her laugh and talk | Q |
| Forgot the cruel hawk | Q |
Jean De La Fontaine
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