The Book Of Paradise - The Favoured Beast Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BA C D EE E F GF E EE E H EI E| Or beasts there have been chosen four | A |
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| To come to Paradise | B |
| And there with saints for evermore | A |
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| They dwell in happy wise | C |
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| Amongst them all the Ass stands first | D |
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| He comes with joyous stride | E |
| For to the Prophet City erst | E |
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| Did Jesus on him ride | E |
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| Half timid next a Wolf doth creep | F |
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| To whom Mahomet spake | G |
| 'Spoil not the poor man of his sheep | F |
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| The rich man's thou mayst take ' | - |
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| And then the brave and faithful Hound | E |
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| Who by his master kept | E |
| And slept with him the slumbers sound | E |
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| The seven sleepers slept | E |
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| Abuherrira's Cat too here | H |
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| Purrs round his master blest | E |
| For holy must the beast appear | I |
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| The Prophet hath caress'd | E |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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