The Hen With The Golden Eggs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBDEE EEEFFGHHG| A | |
| - | |
| How avarice loseth all | B |
| By striving all to gain | C |
| I need no witness call | B |
| But him whose thrifty hen | D |
| As by the fable we are told | E |
| Laid every day an egg of gold | E |
| 'She hath a treasure in her body ' | - |
| Bethinks the avaricious noddy | E |
| He kills and opens vexed to find | E |
| All things like hens of common kind | E |
| Thus spoil'd the source of all his riches | F |
| To misers he a lesson teaches | F |
| In these last changes of the moon | G |
| How often doth one see | H |
| Men made as poor as he | H |
| By force of getting rich too soon | G |
Jean De La Fontaine
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