Pythagoras And Countryman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCD E BBFFGGHH FFAAIJFF KKA ALLMM| Pythagoras at daybreak drawn | A |
| To meditate on dewy lawn | A |
| To breathe the fragrance of the morning | B |
| And like philosophers all scorning | B |
| To think or care where he was bound | C |
| Fell on a farm A hammer's sound | C |
| Arrested then his thoughts and ear | D |
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| My man what are you doing there | E |
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| The clown stood on a ladder's rung | B |
| And answered him with rudish tongue | B |
| I've caught the villain this here kite | F |
| Kept my hens ever in a fright | F |
| I've nailed he here to my barn door | G |
| Him shan't steal turkey pouts no more | G |
| And lo upon the door displayed | H |
| The caitiff kite his forfeit paid | H |
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| Friend said Pythagoras 'tis right | F |
| To murder a marauding kite | F |
| But by analogy that glutton | A |
| That man who feasts on beef and mutton | A |
| I say that by analogy | I |
| The man who eats a chick should die | J |
| 'Tis insolence of power and might | F |
| When man the glutton kills the kite | F |
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| The clown who heard Pythagoras | K |
| Waxed in a rage called him an ass | K |
| Said man was lord of all creation | A |
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| Man the sage answered sans sensation | A |
| You murder hawks and kites lest they | L |
| Should rob you of your fatted prey | L |
| And that great rogues may hold their state | M |
| The petty rascal meets his fate | M |
John Gay
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