The Raven Wishing To Imitate The Eagle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDDEEFGHHIJJI KLLDMCCNNOO PPQQ| A | |
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| The bird of Jove bore off a mutton | B |
| A raven being witness | C |
| That weaker bird but equal glutton | B |
| Not doubting of his fitness | C |
| To do the same with ease | D |
| And bent his taste to please | D |
| Took round the flock his sweep | E |
| And mark'd among the sheep | E |
| The one of fairest flesh and size | F |
| A real sheep of sacrifice | G |
| A dainty titbit bestial | H |
| Reserved for mouth celestial | H |
| Our gormand gloating round | I |
| Cried 'Sheep I wonder much | J |
| Who could have made you such | J |
| You're far the fattest I have found | I |
| I'll take you for my eating ' | - |
| And on the creature bleating | K |
| He settled down Now sooth to say | L |
| This sheep would weigh | L |
| More than a cheese | D |
| And had a fleece | M |
| Much like that matting famous | C |
| Which graced the chin of Polyphemus | C |
| So fast it clung to every claw | N |
| It was not easy to withdraw | N |
| The shepherd came caught caged and to their joy | O |
| Gave croaker to his children for a toy | O |
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| Ill plays the pilferer the bigger thief | P |
| One's self one ought to know in brief | P |
| Example is a dangerous lure | Q |
| Death strikes the gnat where flies the wasp secure | Q |
Jean De La Fontaine
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