Owl And Farmer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB C DE FFFFFFFFGGHH IIJJKKFF| An owl took in a barn a station | A |
| As fittest for deep contemplation | A |
| There like a Turk upon a beam | B |
| He sat as Turks sit in hareem | B |
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| So smokers at the Magpie met | C |
| Peruse the 'Post boy' or 'Gazette ' | - |
| And thence foretell in wise and sure hope | D |
| The future destinies of Europe | E |
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| The farmer comes to see his sheaves | F |
| The owl his silent soul relieves | F |
| Reason in man is sheer pretence | F |
| Would he were he endowed with sense | F |
| Treat owls with scorning He can praise | F |
| The birds that twitter on the sprays | F |
| Linnets and larks and nightingales | F |
| Yet in the nobler owl he fails | F |
| Should I by daylight view my reign | G |
| Those birds would cluster in my train | G |
| Why do they pounce upon the wing | H |
| Save that they see and own their king | H |
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| Pshaw said the farmer lump of pride | I |
| They only follow to deride | I |
| Your scream affrights the evening hour | J |
| When nightingales enchant the bower | J |
| Why all on earth man beast and fowl | K |
| Know you for what you are an owl | K |
| You and your train 'midst Nature's rules | F |
| Fools in derision follow fools | F |
John Gay
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