The Lion In Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CCBBDEFFGGGGHIIJIJJI KKLMBBNNOONNPPQQPNNG GGRSSRSTTTTGGUUGGGGT VV GGWXWX YY| A | |
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| To Mademoiselle De S vign | B |
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| S vign type of every grace | C |
| In female form and face | C |
| In your regardlessness of men | B |
| Can you show favour when | B |
| The sportive fable craves your ear | D |
| And see unmoved by fear | E |
| A lion's haughty heart | F |
| Thrust through by Love's audacious dart | F |
| Strange conqueror Love And happy he | G |
| And strangely privileged and free | G |
| Who only knows by story | G |
| Him and his feats of glory | G |
| If on this subject you are wont | H |
| To think the simple truth too blunt | I |
| The fabulous may less affront | I |
| Which now inspired with gratitude | J |
| Yea kindled into zeal most fervent | I |
| Doth venture to intrude | J |
| Within your maiden solitude | J |
| And kneel your humble servant | I |
| In times when animals were speakers | K |
| Among the quadrupedal seekers | K |
| Of our alliance | L |
| There came the lions | M |
| And wherefore not for then | B |
| They yielded not to men | B |
| In point of courage or of sense | N |
| Nor were in looks without pretence | N |
| A high born lion on his way | O |
| Across a meadow met one day | O |
| A shepherdess who charm'd him so | N |
| That as such matters ought to go | N |
| He sought the maiden for his bride | P |
| Her sire it cannot be denied | P |
| Had much preferr'd a son in law | Q |
| Of less terrific mouth and paw | Q |
| It was not easy to decide | P |
| The lion might the gift abuse | N |
| 'Twas not quite prudent to refuse | N |
| And if refusal there should be | G |
| Perhaps a marriage one would see | G |
| Some morning made clandestinely | G |
| For over and above | R |
| The fact that she could bear | S |
| With none but males of martial air | S |
| The lady was in love | R |
| With him of shaggy hair | S |
| Her sire much wanting cover | T |
| To send away the lover | T |
| Thus spoke 'My daughter sir | T |
| Is delicate I fear to her | T |
| Your fond caressings | G |
| Will prove rough blessings | G |
| To banish all alarm | U |
| About such sort of harm | U |
| Permit us to remove the cause | G |
| By filing off your teeth and claws | G |
| In such a case your royal kiss | G |
| Will be to her a safer bliss | G |
| And to yourself a sweeter | T |
| Since she will more respond | V |
| To those endearments fond | V |
| With which you greet her ' | - |
| The lion gave consent at once | G |
| By love so great a dunce | G |
| Without a tooth or claw now view him | W |
| A fort with cannon spiked | X |
| The dogs let loose upon him slew him | W |
| All biting safely where they liked | X |
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| O tyrant Love when held by you | Y |
| We may to prudence bid adieu | Y |
Jean De La Fontaine
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