The Sun And The Frogs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEEFGFGFEEHHIIJHK KLLEMEMNNOOPQPQRRSS| A | |
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| Long from the monarch of the stars | B |
| The daughters of the mud received | C |
| Support and aid nor dearth nor wars | D |
| Meanwhile their teeming nation grieved | C |
| They spread their empire far and wide | E |
| Through every marsh by every tide | E |
| The queens of swamps I mean no more | F |
| Than simply frogs great names are cheap | G |
| Caball'd together on the shore | F |
| And cursed their patron from the deep | G |
| And came to be a perfect bore | F |
| Pride rashness and ingratitude | E |
| The progeny of fortune good | E |
| Soon brought them to a bitter cry | H |
| The end of sleep for earth and sky | H |
| Their clamours if they did not craze | I |
| Would truly seem enough to raise | I |
| All living things to mutiny | J |
| Against the power of Nature's eye | H |
| The sun according to their croak | K |
| Was turning all the world to smoke | K |
| It now behoved to take alarm | L |
| And promptly powerful troops to arm | L |
| Forthwith in haste they sent | E |
| Their croaking embassies | M |
| To all their states they went | E |
| And all their colonies | M |
| To hear them talk the all | N |
| That rides upon this whirling ball | N |
| Of men and things was left at stake | O |
| Upon the mud that skirts a lake | O |
| The same complaint in fens and bogs | P |
| Still ever strains their lungs | Q |
| And yet these much complaining frogs | P |
| Had better hold their tongues | Q |
| For should the sun in anger rise | R |
| And hurl his vengeance from the skies | R |
| That kingless half aquatic crew | S |
| Their impudence would sorely rue | S |
Jean De La Fontaine
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