The Ploughman And His Sons Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BB CCDDEEFFGGH IJKKLLMM| A | |
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| The farmer's patient care and toil | B |
| Are oftener wanting than the soil | B |
| - | |
| A wealthy ploughman drawing near his end | C |
| Call'd in his sons apart from every friend | C |
| And said 'When of your sire bereft | D |
| The heritage our fathers left | D |
| Guard well nor sell a single field | E |
| A treasure in it is conceal'd | E |
| The place precisely I don't know | F |
| But industry will serve to show | F |
| The harvest past Time's forelock take | G |
| And search with plough and spade and rake | G |
| Turn over every inch of sod | H |
| Nor leave unsearch'd a single clod ' | - |
| The father died The sons and not in vain | I |
| Turn'd o'er the soil and o'er again | J |
| That year their acres bore | K |
| More grain than e'er before | K |
| Though hidden money found they none | L |
| Yet had their father wisely done | L |
| To show by such a measure | M |
| That toil itself is treasure | M |
Jean De La Fontaine
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