The Two Goats Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDCDDDDDDDDDEFED GGDDHHIIJJKKLLDD| Two goats who self emancipated | A |
| The white that on their feet they wore | B |
| Look'd back to noble blood of yore | B |
| Once quit the lowly meadows sated | A |
| And sought the hills as it would seem | C |
| In search of luck by luck they met | D |
| Each other at a mountain stream | C |
| As bridge a narrow plank was set | D |
| On which if truth must be confest | D |
| Two weasels scarce could go abreast | D |
| And then the torrent foaming white | D |
| As down it tumbled from the height | D |
| Might well those Amazons affright | D |
| But maugre such a fearful rapid | D |
| Both took the bridge the goats intrepid | D |
| I seem to see our Louis Grand | D |
| And Philip IV advance | E |
| To the Isle of Conference | F |
| That lies 'twixt Spain and France | E |
| Each sturdy for his glorious land | D |
| Thus each of our adventurers goes | G |
| Till foot to foot and nose to nose | G |
| Somewhere about the midst they meet | D |
| And neither will an inch retreat | D |
| For why they both enjoy'd the glory | H |
| Of ancestors in ancient story | H |
| The one a goat of peerless rank | I |
| Which browsing on Sicilian bank | I |
| The Cyclop gave to Galat a | J |
| The other famous Amalth a | J |
| The goat that suckled Jupiter | K |
| As some historians aver | K |
| For want of giving back in troth | L |
| A common fall involved them both | L |
| A common accident no doubt | D |
| On Fortune's changeful route | D |
Jean De La Fontaine
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