The Treasure And The Two Men Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCCDDEEFFGGHIHICCJ JKKLLMMNNJ OPOPQQRQRSSPTTPTTTT| A | |
| - | |
| A man whose credit fail'd and what was worse | B |
| Who lodged the devil in his purse | B |
| That is to say lodged nothing there | C |
| By self suspension in the air | C |
| Concluded his accounts to square | C |
| Since should he not he understood | D |
| From various tokens famine would | D |
| A death for which no mortal wight | E |
| Had ever any appetite | E |
| A ruin crown'd with ivy green | F |
| Was of his tragedy the scene | F |
| His hangman's noose he duly tied | G |
| And then to drive a nail he tried | G |
| But by his blows the wall gave way | H |
| Now tremulous and old | I |
| Disclosing to the light of day | H |
| A sum of hidden gold | I |
| He clutch'd it up and left Despair | C |
| To struggle with his halter there | C |
| Nor did the much delighted man | J |
| E'en stop to count it as he ran | J |
| But while he went the owner came | K |
| Who loved it with a secret flame | K |
| Too much indeed for kissing | L |
| And found his money missing | L |
| 'O Heavens ' he cried 'shall I | M |
| Such riches lose and still not die | M |
| Shall I not hang as I in fact | N |
| Might justly do if cord I lack'd | N |
| But now without expense I can | J |
| This cord here only lacks a man ' | - |
| The saving was no saving clause | O |
| It suffer'd not his heart to falter | P |
| Until it reach'd his final pause | O |
| As full possessor of the halter | P |
| 'Tis thus the miser often grieves | Q |
| Whoe'er the benefit receives | Q |
| Of what he owns he never must | R |
| Mere treasurer for thieves | Q |
| Or relatives or dust | R |
| But what say we about the trade | S |
| In this affair by Fortune made | S |
| Why what but that it was just like her | P |
| In freaks like this delighteth she | T |
| The shorter any turn may be | T |
| The better it is sure to strike her | P |
| It fills that goddess full of glee | T |
| A self suspended man to see | T |
| And that it does especially | T |
| When made so unexpectedly | T |
Jean De La Fontaine
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