The Mountain In Labour Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDD EFEGHHHII| A | |
| - | |
| A mountain was in travail pang | B |
| The country with her clamour rang | B |
| Out ran the people all to see | C |
| Supposing that the birth would be | C |
| A city or at least a house | D |
| It was a mouse | D |
| - | |
| In thinking of this fable | E |
| Of story feign'd and false | F |
| But meaning veritable | E |
| My mind the image calls | G |
| Of one who writes The war I sing | H |
| Which Titans waged against the Thunder king | H |
| As on the sounding verses ring | H |
| What will be brought to birth | I |
| Why dearth | I |
Jean De La Fontaine
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