Dog And Fox Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDDEFGGHHII JJIIKKIIAA GGJJLL JJIIMMNNIIMMII JJLL GGOPLLQQ IIAAII IIRR SSTT IILL UUVV WWQQ| To a Lawyer | A |
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| My friend the sophisticated tongue | B |
| Of lawyers can turn right to wrong | C |
| And language by your skill made pliant | D |
| Can save an undeserving client | D |
| Is it the fee directs the sense | E |
| To injure injured innocence | F |
| Or can you with a double face | G |
| Like Janus's mistate a case | G |
| Is scepticism your profession | H |
| And justice absent from your session | H |
| And is e'en so the bar supplied | I |
| Where eloquence takes either side | I |
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| A man can well express his meaning | J |
| Except in law deeds where your gleaning | J |
| Must be first purchased must be fee'd | I |
| Engrossed too the too prolix deed | I |
| But do we shelter beneath law | K |
| Ay till your brother finds the flaw | K |
| All wills pass muster undisputed | I |
| Dispute and they are soon confuted | I |
| And you by instinct flaws discover | A |
| As dogs find coveys in the clover | A |
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| Sagacious Porta loved to trace | G |
| Likeness to brutes in lordly face | G |
| To ape or owls his sketches liking | J |
| Sent the laugh round they were so striking | J |
| So would I draw my satire true | L |
| And fix it on myself or you | L |
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| But you dissent you do not like | J |
| A portrait that shall rudely strike | J |
| You write no libels on the state | I |
| And party prejudice you hate | I |
| But to assail a private name | M |
| You shrink my friend and deem it shame | M |
| So be it yet let me in fable | N |
| Knock a knave over if I am able | N |
| Shall not the decalogue be read | I |
| Because the guilty sit in dread | I |
| Brutes are my theme am I to blame | M |
| If minds are brutish men the same | M |
| Whom the cap fits e'en let him wear it | I |
| And we are strong enough to bear it | I |
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| A shepherd's dog unused to sporting | J |
| Picked up acquaintance all consorting | J |
| Amongst the rest a friendship grew | L |
| 'Twixt him and Reynard whom he knew | L |
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| Said Reynard 'Tis a cruel case | G |
| That man will stigmatize my race | G |
| Ah there are rogues midst men and foxes | O |
| You see that where the parish stocks is | P |
| Still there are honest men and true | L |
| So are there honest foxes too | L |
| You see and know I've no disguise | Q |
| And that like life I honour prize | Q |
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| The honest dog threw off distrust | I |
| For talk like that seemed good and just | I |
| On as they went one day with chatter | A |
| Of honour and such moral matter | A |
| They heard a tramp Are hounds abroad | I |
| I heard a clatter on the road | I |
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| Nay said the dog 'tis market day | I |
| Dame Dobbin now is on her way | I |
| That foot is Dun's the pyebald mare | R |
| They go to sell their poultry ware | R |
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| Their poultry ware Why poultry me | S |
| Sir your remark is very free | S |
| Do I know your Dame Dobbin's farm | T |
| Did I e'er do her hen roost harm | T |
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| Why my good friend I never meant | I |
| To give your spirit discontent | I |
| No lamb for aught I ever knew | L |
| Could be more innocent than you | L |
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| What do you mean by such a flam | U |
| Why do you talk to me of lamb | U |
| They lost three lambs you say that I | V |
| I robbed the fold you dog you lie | V |
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| Knave said the dog your conscience tweaks | W |
| It is the guilty soul that speaks | W |
| So saying on the fox he flies | Q |
| The self convicted felon dies | Q |
John Gay
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