The Old Cat And The Young Mouse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDCDCEEFFGGHHIIJ JKKLLMNLL OOPP| A young and inexperienced mouse | A |
| Had faith to try a veteran cat | B |
| Raminagrobis death to rat | B |
| And scourge of vermin through the house | A |
| Appealing to his clemency | C |
| With reasons sound and fair | D |
| Pray let me live a mouse like me | C |
| It were not much to spare | D |
| Am I in such a family | C |
| A burden Would my largest wish | E |
| Our wealthy host impoverish | E |
| A grain of wheat will make my meal | F |
| A nut will fat me like a seal | F |
| I'm lean at present please to wait | G |
| And for your heirs reserve my fate | G |
| The captive mouse thus spake | H |
| Replied the captor You mistake | H |
| To me shall such a thing be said | I |
| Address the deaf address the dead | I |
| A cat to pardon old one too | J |
| Why such a thing I never knew | J |
| Thou victim of my paw | K |
| By well establish'd law | K |
| Die as a mousling should | L |
| And beg the sisterhood | L |
| Who ply the thread and shears | M |
| To lend thy speech their ears | N |
| Some other like repast | L |
| My heirs may find or fast | L |
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| He ceased The moral's plain | O |
| Youth always hopes its ends to gain | O |
| Believes all spirits like its own | P |
| Old age is not to mercy prone | P |
Jean De La Fontaine
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