The Bull And The Mastiff Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFFGHIIJJEEEE KKLLEEMMNN| Deem you to train your son and heir | A |
| For his preceptor then take care | A |
| To sound his mind your cares employ | B |
| E'er you commit to him your boy | B |
| Once on a time on native plain | C |
| A bull enjoyed a native reign | C |
| A mastiff stranger there with ire | D |
| Beheld the bull with eyes of fire | E |
| The bovine monarch on his part | F |
| Spurned up the dust with dauntless heart | F |
| Advised the mastiff to think twice | G |
| And asked if lust or avarice | H |
| From which in main contention springs | I |
| Caused him to break the peace of kings | I |
| The mastiff answered him 'twas glory | J |
| To emulate the sons of story | J |
| Told him that C sar was his sire | E |
| And he a prince baptized in fire | E |
| That rifles and the mitrailleur | E |
| Had thrown his bosom in a stir | E |
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| Accursed cur the bull replied | K |
| Delighting in the sanguine tide | K |
| If you are Revolution trained | L |
| Doubtless your paws with blood are stained | L |
| Demons that take delight in slaughter | E |
| And pour out human blood as water | E |
| Take then thy fate With goring wound | M |
| The monarch tossed him from the ground | M |
| In air gyrating on the stones | N |
| He fell a mass of broken bones | N |
John Gay
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