The Lark And Her Young Ones With The Owner Of A Field Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDDCEEFGHFIIJKKJLL HMNNMOPQQR CSSTTT UUCT TVW XYYZZQQA2 B2B2S C2 SD2D2E2E2F2F2SSEEG2 H2 I2H2EEA | |
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Depend upon yourself alone | B |
Has to a common proverb grown | B |
'Tis thus confirm'd in Aesop's way | C |
The larks to build their nests are seen | D |
Among the wheat crops young and green | D |
That is to say | C |
What time all things dame Nature heeding | E |
Betake themselves to love and breeding | E |
The monstrous whales and sharks | F |
Beneath the briny flood | G |
The tigers in the wood | H |
And in the fields the larks | F |
One she however of these last | I |
Found more than half the spring time past | I |
Without the taste of spring time pleasures | J |
When firmly she set up her will | K |
That she would be a mother still | K |
And resolutely took her measures | J |
First got herself by Hymen match'd | L |
Then built her nest laid sat and hatch'd | L |
All went as well as such things could | H |
The wheat crop ripening ere the brood | M |
Were strong enough to take their flight | N |
Aware how perilous their plight | N |
The lark went out to search for food | M |
And told her young to listen well | O |
And keep a constant sentinel | P |
'The owner of this field ' said she | Q |
'Will come I know his grain to see | Q |
Hear all he says we little birds | R |
Must shape our conduct by his words ' | - |
No sooner was the lark away | C |
Than came the owner with his son | S |
'This wheat is ripe ' said he 'now run | S |
And give our friends a call | T |
To bring their sickles all | T |
And help us great and small | T |
To morrow at the break of day ' | - |
The lark returning found no harm | U |
Except her nest in wild alarm | U |
Says one 'We heard the owner say | C |
Go give our friends a call | T |
To help to morrow break of day ' | - |
Replied the lark 'If that is all | T |
We need not be in any fear | V |
But only keep an open ear | W |
As gay as larks now eat your victuals ' | - |
They ate and slept the great and littles | X |
The dawn arrives but not the friends | Y |
The lark soars up the owner wends | Y |
His usual round to view his land | Z |
'This grain ' says he 'ought not to stand | Z |
Our friends do wrong and so does he | Q |
Who trusts that friends will friendly be | Q |
My son go call our kith and kin | A2 |
To help us get our harvest in ' | - |
This second order made | B2 |
The little larks still more afraid | B2 |
'He sent for kindred mother by his son | S |
The work will now indeed be done ' | - |
'No darlings go to sleep | C2 |
Our lowly nest we'll keep ' | - |
With reason said for kindred there came none | S |
Thus tired of expectation vain | D2 |
Once more the owner view'd his grain | D2 |
'My son ' said he 'we're surely fools | E2 |
To wait for other people's tools | E2 |
As if one might for love or pelf | F2 |
Have friends more faithful than himself | F2 |
Engrave this lesson deep my son | S |
And know you now what must be done | S |
We must ourselves our sickles bring | E |
And while the larks their matins sing | E |
Begin the work and on this plan | G2 |
Get in our harvest as we can ' | - |
This plan the lark no sooner knew | H2 |
Than 'Now's the time ' she said 'my chicks ' | - |
And taking little time to fix | I2 |
Away they flew | H2 |
All fluttering soaring often grounding | E |
Decamp'd without a trumpet sounding | E |
Jean De La Fontaine
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