The Horse And The Wolf Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABBBCCDDEEFFGHGHIJ IJKKLLMMKKKKNONOPPQQ| A wolf who fall'n on needy days | A |
| In sharp look out for means and ways | A |
| Espied a horse turn'd out to graze | A |
| His joy the reader may opine | B |
| Once got said he this game were fine | B |
| But if a sheep 'twere sooner mine | B |
| I can't proceed my usual way | C |
| Some trick must now be put in play | C |
| This said | D |
| He came with measured tread | D |
| And told the horse with learned verbs | E |
| He knew the power of roots and herbs | E |
| Whatever grew about those borders | F |
| He soon could cure of all disorders | F |
| If he Sir Horse would not conceal | G |
| The symptoms of his case | H |
| He Doctor Wolf would gratis heal | G |
| For that to feed in such a place | H |
| And run about untied | I |
| Was proof itself of some disease | J |
| As all the books decide | I |
| I have good Doctor if you please | J |
| Replied the horse as I presume | K |
| Beneath my foot an aposthume | K |
| My son replied the learned leech | L |
| That part as all our authors teach | L |
| Is strikingly susceptible | M |
| Of ills which make acceptable | M |
| What you may also have from me | K |
| The aid of skilful surgery | K |
| The fellow with this talk sublime | K |
| Watch'd for a snap the fitting time | K |
| Meanwhile suspicious of some trick | N |
| The weary patient nearer draws | O |
| And gives his doctor such a kick | N |
| As makes a chowder of his jaws | O |
| Exclaim'd the Wolf in sorry plight | P |
| I own those heels have served me right | P |
| I err'd to quit my trade as I will not in future | Q |
| Me Nature surely made for nothing but a butcher | Q |
Jean De La Fontaine
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