The Torrent And The River Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCABDDEEFFGGHBBIIHJ JKKLLM MM| With mighty rush and roar | A |
| Adown a mountain steep | B |
| A torrent tumbled swelling o'er | C |
| Its rugged banks and bore | A |
| Vast ruin in its sweep | B |
| The traveller were surely rash | D |
| To brave its whirling foaming dash | D |
| But one by robbers sorely press'd | E |
| Its terrors haply put to test | E |
| They were but threats of foam and sound | F |
| The loudest where the least profound | F |
| With courage from his safe success | G |
| His foes continuing to press | G |
| He met a river in his course | H |
| On stole its waters calm and deep | B |
| So silently they seem'd asleep | B |
| All sweetly cradled as I ween | I |
| In sloping banks and gravel clean | I |
| They threaten'd neither man nor horse | H |
| Both ventured but the noble steed | J |
| That saved from robbers by his speed | J |
| From that deep water could not save | K |
| Both went to drink the Stygian wave | K |
| Both went to cross but not to swim | L |
| Where reigns a monarch stern and grim | L |
| Far other streams than ours | M |
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| Still men are men of dangerous powers | M |
| Elsewhere 'tis only ignorance that cowers | M |
Jean De La Fontaine
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