The Little Fish And The Fisher Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDCDEEFF GGHHGGIIJ KKGG LL| A | |
| - | |
| A little fish will grow | B |
| If life be spared a great | C |
| But yet to let him go | B |
| And for his growing wait | C |
| May not be very wise | D |
| As 'tis not sure your bait | C |
| Will catch him when of size | D |
| Upon a river bank a fisher took | E |
| A tiny troutling from his hook | E |
| Said he ''Twill serve to count at least | F |
| As the beginning of my feast | F |
| And so I'll put it with the rest ' | - |
| This little fish thus caught | G |
| His clemency besought | G |
| 'What will your honour do with me | H |
| I'm not a mouthful as you see | H |
| Pray let me grow to be a trout | G |
| And then come here and fish me out | G |
| Some alderman who likes things nice | I |
| Will buy me then at any price | I |
| But now a hundred such you'll have to fish | J |
| To make a single good for nothing dish ' | - |
| 'Well well be it so ' replied the fisher | K |
| 'My little fish who play the preacher | K |
| The frying pan must be your lot | G |
| Although no doubt you like it not | G |
| I fry the fry that can be got ' | - |
| - | |
| In some things men of sense | L |
| Prefer the present to the future tense | L |
Jean De La Fontaine
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