Fable L: The Hare And Many Friends Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCBBDDEFGGHHI JKL MMNNOOPPQ PPP RR O SSHHT| Friendship as love is but a name | A |
| Save in a concentrated flame | A |
| And thus in friendships who depend | B |
| On more than one find not one friend | B |
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| A hare who in a civil way | C |
| Was not dissimilar to GAY | C |
| Was well known never to offend | B |
| And every creature was her friend | B |
| As was her wont at early dawn | D |
| She issued to the dewy lawn | D |
| When from the wood and empty lair | E |
| The cry of hounds fell on her ear | F |
| She started at the frightful sounds | G |
| And doubled to mislead the hounds | G |
| Till fainting with her beating heart | H |
| She saw the horse who fed apart | H |
| 'My friend the hounds are on my track | I |
| Oh let me refuge on your back ' | - |
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| The horse responded 'Honest Puss | J |
| It grieves me much to see you thus | K |
| Be comforted relief is near | L |
| Behold the bull is in the rear ' | - |
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| Then she implored the stately bull | M |
| His answer we relate in full | M |
| 'Madam each beast alive can tell | N |
| How very much I wish you well | N |
| But business presses in a heap | O |
| I an appointment have to keep | O |
| And now a lady's in the case | P |
| When other things you know give place | P |
| Behold the goat is just behind | Q |
| Trust trust you'll not think me unkind ' | - |
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| The goat declared his rocky lairs | P |
| Wholly unsuited were to hares | P |
| 'There is the sheep ' he said 'with fleece | P |
| Adapted now to your release ' | - |
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| The sheep replied that she was sure | R |
| Her weight was too great to endure | R |
| 'Besides ' she said 'hounds worry sheep ' | - |
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| Next was a calf safe in a keep | O |
| 'Oh help me bull calf lend me aid ' | - |
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| 'My youth and inexperience weighed ' | - |
| Replied the bull calf 'though I rue it | S |
| Make me incompetent to do it | S |
| My friends might take offence My heart | H |
| You know my heart my friend we part | H |
| I do assure you Hark adieu | T |
| The pack in full cry is in view ' | - |
John Gay
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