The Old Woman And Her Two Servants Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDCDECCCCCFFGGGGHI GGJ GGGGGGKKKLCLCMM| A | |
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| A beldam kept two spinning maids | B |
| Who plied so handily their trades | B |
| Those spinning sisters down below | C |
| Were bunglers when compared with these | D |
| No care did this old woman know | C |
| But giving tasks as she might please | D |
| No sooner did the god of day | E |
| His glorious locks enkindle | C |
| Than both the wheels began to play | C |
| And from each whirling spindle | C |
| Forth danced the thread right merrily | C |
| And back was coil'd unceasingly | C |
| Soon as the dawn I say its tresses show'd | F |
| A graceless cock most punctual crow'd | F |
| The beldam roused more graceless yet | G |
| In greasy petticoat bedight | G |
| Struck up her farthing light | G |
| And then forthwith the bed beset | G |
| Where deeply blessedly did snore | H |
| Those two maid servants tired and poor | I |
| One oped an eye an arm one stretch'd | G |
| And both their breath most sadly fetch'd | G |
| This threat concealing in the sigh | J |
| 'That cursed cock shall surely die ' | - |
| And so he did they cut his throat | G |
| And put to sleep his rousing note | G |
| And yet this murder mended not | G |
| The cruel hardship of their lot | G |
| For now the twain were scarce in bed | G |
| Before they heard the summons dread | G |
| The beldam full of apprehension | K |
| Lest oversleep should cause detention | K |
| Ran like a goblin through her mansion | K |
| Thus often when one thinks | L |
| To clear himself from ill | C |
| His effort only sinks | L |
| Him in the deeper still | C |
| The beldam acting for the cock | M |
| Was Scylla for Charybdis' rock | M |
Jean De La Fontaine
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