The Two Rats, The Fox, And The Egg Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDCDEEFEFEGHIII IJJKKJJ EEEE| Two rats in foraging fell on an egg | A |
| For gentry such as they | B |
| A genteel dinner every way | B |
| They needed not to find an ox's leg | A |
| Brimful of joy and appetite | C |
| They were about to sack the box | D |
| So tight without the aid of locks | D |
| When suddenly there came in sight | C |
| A personage Sir Pullet Fox | D |
| Sure luck was never more untoward | E |
| Since Fortune was a vixen froward | E |
| How should they save their egg and bacon | F |
| Their plunder couldn't then be bagg'd | E |
| Should it in forward paws be taken | F |
| Or roll'd along or dragg'd | E |
| Each method seem'd impossible | G |
| And each was then of danger full | H |
| Necessity ingenious mother | I |
| Brought forth what help'd them from their pother | I |
| As still there was a chance to save their prey | I |
| The sponger yet some hundred yards away | I |
| One seized the egg and turn'd upon his back | J |
| And then in spite of many a thump and thwack | J |
| That would have torn perhaps a coat of mail | K |
| The other dragg'd him by the tail | K |
| Who dares the inference to blink | J |
| That beasts possess wherewith to think | J |
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| Were I commission'd to bestow | E |
| This power on creatures here below | E |
| The beasts should have as much of mind | E |
| As infants of the human kind | E |
Jean De La Fontaine
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