The Man And The Flea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDDEEEE FFGGH II| A | |
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| Impertinent we tease and weary Heaven | B |
| With prayers which would insult mere mortals even | C |
| 'Twould seem that not a god in all the skies | D |
| From our affairs must ever turn his eyes | D |
| And that the smallest of our race | E |
| Could hardly eat or wash his face | E |
| Without like Greece and Troy for ten years' space | E |
| Embroiling all Olympus in the case | E |
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| A flea some blockhead's shoulder bit | F |
| And then his clothes refused to quit | F |
| 'O Hercules ' he cried 'you ought to purge | G |
| This world of this far worse than hydra scourge | G |
| O Jupiter what are your bolts about | H |
| They do not put these foes of mine to rout ' | - |
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| To crush a flea this fellow's fingers under | I |
| The gods must lend the fool their club and thunder | I |
Jean De La Fontaine
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