Lion And Cub Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFGGHHII JJIIKKAA LL MM| All men are fond of rule and place | A |
| Though granted by the mean and base | A |
| Yet all superior merit fly | B |
| Nor will endure an equal nigh | B |
| They o'er some ale house club preside | C |
| With smoke and joke and paltry pride | C |
| Nay e'en with blockheads pass the night | D |
| If such can read to such I write | D |
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| A lion cub of sordid mind | E |
| Avoided all the lion kind | E |
| And greedy of applause sought feasts | F |
| With asses and ignoble beasts | F |
| There as their president appears | G |
| An ass in every point but ears | G |
| If he would perpetrate a joke | H |
| They brayed applause before he spoke | H |
| And when he spoke with shout they praised | I |
| And said he beautifully brayed | I |
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| Elate with adulation then | J |
| He sought his father's royal den | J |
| And brayed a bray The lion started | I |
| The noble heart within him smarted | I |
| You lion cub he said your bray | K |
| Proclaims where you pass night and day | K |
| 'Midst coxcombs who with shameless face | A |
| Blush not proclaiming their disgrace | A |
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| Father the club deems very fine | L |
| All that conforms with asinine | L |
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| My son what stupid asses prize | M |
| Lions and nobler brutes despise | M |
John Gay
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