The Lobster And Her Daughter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDDEEFFGGHIIJEKKEEL MMLE EEE NKOOPEEP| A | |
| - | |
| The wise sometimes as lobsters do | B |
| To gain their ends back foremost go | C |
| It is the rower's art and those | D |
| Commanders who mislead their foes | D |
| Do often seem to aim their sight | E |
| Just where they don't intend to smite | E |
| My theme so low may yet apply | F |
| To one whose fame is very high | F |
| Who finds it not the hardest matter | G |
| A hundred headed league to scatter | G |
| What he will do what leave undone | H |
| Are secrets with unbroken seals | I |
| Till victory the truth reveals | I |
| Whatever he would have unknown | J |
| Is sought in vain Decrees of Fate | E |
| Forbid to check at first the course | K |
| Which sweeps at last with torrent force | K |
| One Jove as ancient fables state | E |
| Exceeds a hundred gods in weight | E |
| So Fate and Louis would seem able | L |
| The universe to draw | M |
| Bound captive to their law | M |
| But come we to our fable | L |
| A mother lobster did her daughter chide | E |
| 'For shame my daughter can't you go ahead ' | - |
| 'And how go you yourself ' the child replied | E |
| 'Can I be but by your example led | E |
| Head foremost should I singularly wend | E |
| While all my race pursue the other end ' | - |
| She spoke with sense for better or for worse | N |
| Example has a universal force | K |
| To some it opens wisdom's door | O |
| But leads to folly many more | O |
| Yet as for backing to one's aim | P |
| When properly pursued | E |
| The art is doubtless good | E |
| At least in grim Bellona's game | P |
Jean De La Fontaine
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