The Wolf And The Hunter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCCDDEFFGH IIGG JHIFFIFFKKLLFFBBFFFF MNMNN FF FFFO PPQQRRJFH KSTT UVFF| A | |
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| Thou lust of gain foul fiend whose evil eyes | B |
| Regard as nought the blessings of the skies | B |
| Must I for ever battle thee in vain | C |
| How long demandest thou to gain | C |
| The meaning of my lessons plain | C |
| Will constant getting never cloy | D |
| Will man ne'er slacken to enjoy | D |
| Haste friend thou hast not long to live | E |
| Let me the precious word repeat | F |
| And listen to it I entreat | F |
| A richer lesson none can give | G |
| The sovereign antidote for sorrow | H |
| ENJOY 'I will ' But when 'To morrow ' | - |
| Ah death may take you on the way | I |
| Why not enjoy I ask to day | I |
| Lest envious fate your hopes ingulf | G |
| As once it served the hunter and the wolf | G |
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| The former with his fatal bow | J |
| A noble deer had laid full low | H |
| A fawn approach'd and quickly lay | I |
| Companion of the dead | F |
| For side by side they bled | F |
| Could one have wished a richer prey | I |
| Such luck had been enough to sate | F |
| A hunter wise and moderate | F |
| Meantime a boar as big as e'er was taken | K |
| Our archer tempted proud and fond of bacon | K |
| Another candidate for Styx | L |
| Struck by his arrow foams and kicks | L |
| But strangely do the shears of Fate | F |
| To cut his cable hesitate | F |
| Alive yet dying there he lies | B |
| A glorious and a dangerous prize | B |
| And was not this enough Not quite | F |
| To fill a conqueror's appetite | F |
| For ere the boar was dead he spied | F |
| A partridge by a furrow's side | F |
| A trifle to his other game | M |
| Once more his bow he drew | N |
| The desperate boar upon him came | M |
| And in his dying vengeance slew | N |
| The partridge thank'd him as she flew | N |
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| Thus much is to the covetous address'd | F |
| The miserly shall have the rest | F |
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| A wolf in passing saw that woeful sight | F |
| 'O Fortune ' cried the savage with delight | F |
| 'A fane to thee I'll build outright | F |
| 'Four carcasses how rich But spare | O |
| 'I'll make them last such luck is rare ' | - |
| The miser's everlasting plea | P |
| 'They'll last a month for let me see | P |
| One two three four the weeks are four | Q |
| If I can count and some days more | Q |
| Well two days hence | R |
| And I'll commence | R |
| Meantime the string upon this bow | J |
| I'll stint myself to eat | F |
| For by its mutton smell I know | H |
| 'Tis made of entrails sweet ' | - |
| His entrails rued the fatal weapon | K |
| Which while he heedlessly did step on | S |
| The arrow pierced his bowels deep | T |
| And laid him lifeless on the heap | T |
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| Hark stingy souls insatiate leeches | U |
| Our text this solemn duty teaches | V |
| Enjoy the present do not wait | F |
| To share the wolf's or hunter's fate | F |
Jean De La Fontaine
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