The Miser And The Monkey Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJKK LIMLINNOOPPKKPPQKKQK DKDKK RS| A | |
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| A man amass'd The thing we know | B |
| Doth often to a frenzy grow | B |
| No thought had he but of his minted gold | C |
| Stuff void of worth when unemploy'd I hold | C |
| Now that this treasure might the safer be | D |
| Our miser's dwelling had the sea | D |
| As guard on every side from every thief | E |
| With pleasure very small in my belief | E |
| But very great in his he there | F |
| Upon his hoard bestow'd his care | F |
| No respite came of everlasting | G |
| Recounting calculating casting | G |
| For some mistake would always come | H |
| To mar and spoil the total sum | H |
| A monkey there of goodly size | I |
| And than his lord I think more wise | I |
| Some doubloons from the window threw | J |
| And render'd thus the count untrue | J |
| The padlock'd room permitted | K |
| Its owner when he quitted | K |
| To leave his money on the table | L |
| One day bethought this monkey wise | I |
| To make the whole a sacrifice | M |
| To Neptune on his throne unstable | L |
| I could not well award the prize | I |
| Between the monkey's and the miser's pleasure | N |
| Derived from that devoted treasure | N |
| With some Don Bertrand would the honour gain | O |
| For reasons it were tedious to explain | O |
| One day then left alone | P |
| That animal to mischief prone | P |
| Coin after coin detach'd | K |
| A gold jacobus snatch'd | K |
| Or Portuguese doubloon | P |
| Or silver ducatoon | P |
| Or noble of the English rose | Q |
| And flung with all his might | K |
| Those discs which oft excite | K |
| The strongest wishes mortal ever knows | Q |
| Had he not heard at last | K |
| The turning of his master's key | D |
| The money all had pass'd | K |
| The same short road to sea | D |
| And not a single coin but had been pitch'd | K |
| Into the gulf by many a wreck enrich'd | K |
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| Now God preserve full many a financier | R |
| Whose use of wealth may find its likeness here | S |
Jean De La Fontaine
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