The Man And The Wooden God Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDBEEFFGGHHHEEEEIIJ KLJ MNNOPQ| A | |
| - | |
| A pagan kept a god of wood | B |
| A sort that never hears | C |
| Though furnish'd well with ears | D |
| From which he hoped for wondrous good | B |
| The idol cost the board of three | E |
| So much enrich'd was he | E |
| With vows and offerings vain | F |
| With bullocks garlanded and slain | F |
| No idol ever had as that | G |
| A kitchen quite so full and fat | G |
| But all this worship at his shrine | H |
| Brought not from this same block divine | H |
| Inheritance or hidden mine | H |
| Or luck at play or any favour | E |
| Nay more if any storm whatever | E |
| Brew'd trouble here or there | E |
| The man was sure to have his share | E |
| And suffer in his purse | I |
| Although the god fared none the worse | I |
| At last by sheer impatience bold | J |
| The man a crowbar seizes | K |
| His idol breaks in pieces | L |
| And finds it richly stuff'd with gold | J |
| 'How's this Have I devoutly treated ' | - |
| Says he 'your godship to be cheated | M |
| Now leave my house and go your way | N |
| And search for altars where you may | N |
| You're like those natures dull and gross | O |
| From which comes nothing but by blows | P |
| The more I gave the less I got | Q |
| I'll now be rich and you may rot ' | - |
Jean De La Fontaine
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