The Shepherd And The Sea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFFFEEGGHHIJJ IB KKBJBJJJLLEE| A | |
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| A shepherd neighbour to the sea | B |
| Lived with his flock contentedly | B |
| His fortune though but small | C |
| Was safe within his call | C |
| At last some stranded kegs of gold | D |
| Him tempted and his flock he sold | D |
| Turn'd merchant and the ocean's waves | E |
| Bore all his treasure to its caves | E |
| Brought back to keeping sheep once more | F |
| But not chief shepherd as before | F |
| When sheep were his that grazed the shore | F |
| He who as Corydon or Thyrsis | E |
| Might once have shone in pastoral verses | E |
| Bedeck'd with rhyme and metre | G |
| Was nothing now but Peter | G |
| But time and toil redeem'd in full | H |
| Those harmless creatures rich in wool | H |
| And as the lulling winds one day | I |
| The vessels wafted with a gentle motion | J |
| 'Want you ' he cried 'more money Madam Ocean | J |
| Address yourself to some one else I pray | I |
| You shall not get it out of me | B |
| I know too well your treachery ' | - |
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| This tale's no fiction but a fact | K |
| Which by experience back'd | K |
| Proves that a single penny | B |
| At present held and certain | J |
| Is worth five times as many | B |
| Of Hope's beyond the curtain | J |
| That one should be content with his condition | J |
| And shut his ears to counsels of ambition | J |
| More faithless than the wreck strown sea and which | L |
| Doth thousands beggar where it makes one rich | L |
| Inspires the hope of wealth in glorious forms | E |
| And blasts the same with piracy and storms | E |
Jean De La Fontaine
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