The Lion, The Wolf, And The Fox Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEFDGFGHIJJKLMM NOPPQDDQRRSSTUVVWW XX| A Lion old and impotent with gout | A |
| Would have some cure for age found out | A |
| This king from every species | B |
| Call'd to his aid the leeches | C |
| They came from quacks without degree | D |
| To doctors of the highest fee | D |
| Advised prescribed talk'd learnedly | E |
| But with the rest | F |
| Came not Sir Cunning Fox M D | D |
| Sir Wolf the royal couch attended | G |
| And his suspicions there express'd | F |
| Forthwith his majesty offended | G |
| Resolved Sir Cunning Fox should come | H |
| And sent to smoke him from his home | I |
| He came was duly usher'd in | J |
| And knowing where Sir Wolf had been | J |
| Said Sire abused your royal ear | K |
| Has been by rumours insincere | L |
| To wit that I've been self exempt | M |
| From coming here through sheer contempt | M |
| But sire your royal health to aid | N |
| I vow'd to make a pilgrimage | O |
| And on my way met doctors sage | P |
| In skill the wonder of the age | P |
| Whom carefully I did consult | Q |
| About that great debility | D |
| Term'd in the books senility | D |
| Of which you fear with reason the result | Q |
| You lack they say the vital heat | R |
| By age extreme become effete | R |
| Drawn from a living wolf the hide | S |
| Should warm and smoking be applied | S |
| Sir Wolf here won't refuse to give | T |
| His hide to cure you as I live | U |
| The king was pleased with this advice | V |
| Flay'd jointed served up in a trice | V |
| Sir Wolf first wrapped the monarch up | W |
| Then furnish'd him whereon to sup | W |
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| Beware ye courtiers lest ye gain | X |
| By slander's arts less power than pain | X |
Jean De La Fontaine
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