The Wolves And The Sheep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBDBDBEEFFGGFFHBHB IIJJKKFF LLBBCC| A | |
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| By gone a thousand years of war | B |
| The wearers of the fleece | C |
| And wolves at last made peace | C |
| Which both appear'd the better for | B |
| For if the wolves had now and then | D |
| Eat up a straggling ewe or wether | B |
| As often had the shepherd men | D |
| Turn'd wolf skins into leather | B |
| Fear always spoil'd the verdant herbage | E |
| And so it did the bloody carnage | E |
| Hence peace was sweet and lest it should be riven | F |
| On both sides hostages were given | F |
| The sheep as by the terms arranged | G |
| For pups of wolves their dogs exchanged | G |
| Which being done above suspicion | F |
| Confirm'd and seal'd by high commission | F |
| What time the pups were fully grown | H |
| And felt an appetite for prey | B |
| And saw the sheepfold left alone | H |
| The shepherds all away | B |
| They seized the fattest lambs they could | I |
| And choking dragg'd them to the wood | I |
| Of which by secret means apprised | J |
| Their sires as is surmised | J |
| Fell on the hostage guardians of the sheep | K |
| And slew them all asleep | K |
| So quick the deed of perfidy was done | F |
| There fled to tell the tale not one | F |
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| From which we may conclude | L |
| That peace with villains will be rued | L |
| Peace in itself 'tis true | B |
| May be a good for you | B |
| But 'tis an evil nathless | C |
| When enemies are faithless | C |
Jean De La Fontaine
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