Philosopher And Pheasant Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE FGHH IIJJKKLMNNNNNNNNOO| A sage awakened by the dawn | A |
| By music of the groves was drawn | A |
| From tree to tree responsive notes | B |
| Arose from many warbling throats | B |
| As he advanced the warblers ceased | C |
| Silent the bird and scared the beast | C |
| The nightingale then ceased her lay | D |
| And the scared leveret ran away | D |
| The sage then pondered and his eye | E |
| Roamed round to learn the reason why | E |
| - | |
| He marked a pheasant as she stood | F |
| Upon a bank above her brood | G |
| With pride maternal beat her breast | H |
| As she harangued and led from nest | H |
| - | |
| Play on my infant brood this glen | I |
| Is free from bad marauding men | I |
| O trust the hawk and trust the kite | J |
| Sooner than man detested wight | J |
| Ingratitude sticks to his mind | K |
| A vice inherent to the kind | K |
| The sheep that clothes him with her wool | L |
| Dies at the shambles butcher's school | M |
| The honey bees with waxen combs | N |
| Are slain by hives and hecatombs | N |
| And the sagacious goose who gives | N |
| The plume whereby he writes and lives | N |
| And as a guerdon for its use | N |
| He cuts the quill and eats the goose | N |
| Avoid the monster where he roams | N |
| He desolates our raided homes | N |
| And where such acts and deeds are boasted | O |
| I hear we pheasants all are roasted | O |
John Gay
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