The Rat And The Elephant Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDDEE FFGGHDIJJIKKLLHHMNOO OD OOOO| One's own importance to enhance | A |
| Inspirited by self esteem | B |
| Is quite a common thing in France | A |
| A French disease it well might seem | B |
| The strutting cavaliers of Spain | C |
| Are in another manner vain | C |
| Their pride has more insanity | D |
| More silliness our vanity | D |
| Let's shadow forth our own disease | E |
| Well worth a hundred tales like these | E |
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| A rat of quite the smallest size | F |
| Fix'd on an elephant his eyes | F |
| And jeer'd the beast of high descent | G |
| Because his feet so slowly went | G |
| Upon his back three stories high | H |
| There sat beneath a canopy | D |
| A certain sultan of renown | I |
| His dog and cat and concubine | J |
| His parrot servant and his wine | J |
| All pilgrims to a distant town | I |
| The rat profess'd to be amazed | K |
| That all the people stood and gazed | K |
| With wonder as he pass'd the road | L |
| Both at the creature and his load | L |
| 'As if ' said he 'to occupy | H |
| A little more of land or sky | H |
| Made one in view of common sense | M |
| Of greater worth and consequence | N |
| What see ye men in this parade | O |
| That food for wonder need be made | O |
| The bulk which makes a child afraid | O |
| In truth I take myself to be | D |
| In all aspects as good as he ' | - |
| And further might have gone his vaunt | O |
| But darting down the cat | O |
| Convinced him that a rat | O |
| Is smaller than an elephant | O |
Jean De La Fontaine
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