The Woods And The Woodman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDDCCEEFFGGHHII JJKLLKKMM| A certain wood chopper lost or broke | A |
| From his axe's eye a bit of oak | A |
| The forest must needs be somewhat spared | B |
| While such a loss was being repair'd | B |
| Came the man at last and humbly pray'd | C |
| That the woods would kindly lend to him | D |
| A moderate loan a single limb | D |
| Whereof might another helve be made | C |
| And his axe should elsewhere drive its trade | C |
| O the oaks and firs that then might stand | E |
| A pride and a joy throughout the land | E |
| For their ancientness and glorious charms | F |
| The innocent Forest lent him arms | F |
| But bitter indeed was her regret | G |
| For the wretch his axe new helved and whet | G |
| Did nought but his benefactress spoil | H |
| Of the finest trees that graced her soil | H |
| And ceaselessly was she made to groan | I |
| Doing penance for that fatal loan | I |
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| Behold the world stage and its actors | J |
| Where benefits hurt benefactors | J |
| A weary theme and full of pain | K |
| For where's the shade so cool and sweet | L |
| Protecting strangers from the heat | L |
| But might of such a wrong complain | K |
| Alas I vex myself in vain | K |
| Ingratitude do what I will | M |
| Is sure to be the fashion still | M |
Jean De La Fontaine
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