The Two Bulls And The Frog Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEEFFGGGGH IIHH GG| A | |
| - | |
| Two bulls engaged in shocking battle | B |
| Both for a certain heifer's sake | C |
| And lordship over certain cattle | B |
| A frog began to groan and quake | C |
| 'But what is this to you ' | - |
| Inquired another of the croaking crew | D |
| 'Why sister don't you see | E |
| The end of this will be | E |
| That one of these big brutes will yield | F |
| And then be exiled from the field | F |
| No more permitted on the grass to feed | G |
| He'll forage through our marsh on rush and reed | G |
| And while he eats or chews the cud | G |
| Will trample on us in the mud | G |
| Alas to think how frogs must suffer | H |
| By means of this proud lady heifer ' | - |
| This fear was not without good sense | I |
| One bull was beat and much to their expense | I |
| For quick retreating to their reedy bower | H |
| He trod on twenty of them in an hour | H |
| - | |
| Of little folks it oft has been the fate | G |
| To suffer for the follies of the great | G |
Jean De La Fontaine
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