The Lion And The Rat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDAEAEFGFHHIIJKK LL MM| To show to all your kindness it behoves | A |
| There's none so small but you his aid may need | B |
| I quote two fables for this weighty creed | B |
| Which either of them fully proves | A |
| From underneath the sward | C |
| A rat quite off his guard | D |
| Popp'd out between a lion's paws | A |
| The beast of royal bearing | E |
| Show'd what a lion was | A |
| The creature's life by sparing | E |
| A kindness well repaid | F |
| For little as you would have thought | G |
| His majesty would ever need his aid | F |
| It proved full soon | H |
| A precious boon | H |
| Forth issuing from his forest glen | I |
| T' explore the haunts of men | I |
| In lion net his majesty was caught | J |
| From which his strength and rage | K |
| Served not to disengage | K |
| The rat ran up with grateful glee | L |
| Gnaw'd off a rope and set him free | L |
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| By time and toil we sever | M |
| What strength and rage could never | M |
Jean De La Fontaine
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