The Two Friends Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF CCGGHH| AXIOCHUS a handsome youth of old | A |
| And Alcibiades both gay and bold | A |
| So well agreed they kept a beauteous belle | B |
| With whom by turns they equally would dwell | B |
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| IT happened one of them so nicely played | C |
| The fav'rite lass produced a little maid | C |
| Which both extolled and each his own believed | D |
| Though doubtless one or t'other was deceived | D |
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| BUT when to riper years the bantling grew | E |
| And sought her mother's foot steps to pursue | E |
| Each friend desired to be her chosen swain | F |
| And neither would a parent's name retain | F |
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| SAID one why brother she's your very shade | C |
| The features are the same your looks pervade | C |
| Oh no the other cried it cannot be | G |
| Her chin mouth nose and eyes with your's agree | G |
| But that as 'twill let me her favours win | H |
| And for the pleasure I will risk the sin | H |
Jean De La Fontaine
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