The Women And The Secret Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DDE FFGG HIHJJKKLLKKM NN OPONNNKNKQQRSSR| A | |
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| There's nothing like a secret weighs | B |
| Too heavy 'tis for women tender | C |
| And for this matter in my days | B |
| I've seen some men of female gender | C |
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| To prove his wife a husband cried | D |
| The night he knew the truth would hide | D |
| 'O Heavens What's this O dear I beg | E |
| I'm torn O O I've laid an egg ' | - |
| 'An egg ' 'Why yes it's gospel true | F |
| Look here see feel it fresh and new | F |
| But wife don't mention it lest men | G |
| Should laugh at me and call me hen | G |
| Indeed don't say a word about it ' | - |
| On this as other matters green and young | H |
| The wife all wonder did not doubt it | I |
| And pledged herself by Heaven to hold her tongue | H |
| Her oath however fled the light | J |
| As quick as did the shades of night | J |
| Before Dan Phoebus waked to labour | K |
| The dame was off to see a neighbour | K |
| 'My friend ' she said half whispering | L |
| 'There's come to pass the strangest thing | L |
| If you should tell 'twould turn me out of door | K |
| My husband's laid an egg as big as four | K |
| As you would taste of heaven's bliss | M |
| Don't tell a living soul of this ' | - |
| 'I tell why if you knew a thing about me | N |
| You wouldn't for an instant doubt me | N |
| Your confidence I'll ne'er abuse ' | - |
| The layer's wife went home relieved | O |
| The other broil'd to tell the news | P |
| You need not ask if she believed | O |
| A dame more busy could not be | N |
| In twenty places ere her tea | N |
| Instead of one egg she said three | N |
| Nor was the story finish'd here | K |
| A gossip still more keen than she | N |
| Said four and spoke it in the ear | K |
| A caution truly little worth | Q |
| Applied to all the ears on earth | Q |
| Of eggs the number thanks to Fame | R |
| As on from mouth to mouth she sped | S |
| Had grown a hundred soothly said | S |
| Ere Sol had quench'd his golden flame | R |
Jean De La Fontaine
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