The Wolf And The Lamb.[1] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCDCEEC FGCGCH I GJ KKGG LMMNN| That innocence is not a shield | A |
| A story teaches not the longest | B |
| The strongest reasons always yield | A |
| To reasons of the strongest | B |
| - | |
| A lamb her thirst was slaking | C |
| Once at a mountain rill | D |
| A hungry wolf was taking | C |
| His hunt for sheep to kill | D |
| When spying on the streamlet's brink | C |
| This sheep of tender age | E |
| He howl'd in tones of rage | E |
| 'How dare you roil my drink | C |
| Your impudence I shall chastise ' | - |
| 'Let not your majesty ' the lamb replies | F |
| 'Decide in haste or passion | G |
| For sure 'tis difficult to think | C |
| In what respect or fashion | G |
| My drinking here could roil your drink | C |
| Since on the stream your majesty now faces | H |
| I'm lower down full twenty paces ' | - |
| 'You roil it ' said the wolf 'and more I know | I |
| You cursed and slander'd me a year ago ' | - |
| 'O no how could I such a thing have done | G |
| A lamb that has not seen a year | J |
| A suckling of its mother dear ' | - |
| 'Your brother then ' 'But brother I have none ' | - |
| 'Well well what's all the same | K |
| 'Twas some one of your name | K |
| Sheep men and dogs of every nation | G |
| Are wont to stab my reputation | G |
| As I have truly heard ' | - |
| Without another word | L |
| He made his vengeance good | M |
| Bore off the lambkin to the wood | M |
| And there without a jury | N |
| Judged slew and ate her in his fury | N |
Jean De La Fontaine
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