The Turkey And The Ant Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ IKKLL MMJJNN| We blame the mote that dims the eye | A |
| Of other men whose faults we spy | A |
| But we ignore the beam that lies | B |
| With stronger strain in one's own eyes | B |
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| A turkey who grew dull at home | C |
| Resolved in the wild woods to roam | C |
| Wearied she was of barn door food | D |
| Therefore she chuckled round her brood | D |
| And said My little ones now follow | E |
| We'll go and dine in yonder hollow | E |
| They first upon an ant hill fell | F |
| Myriads of negro ants pell mell | F |
| O gobble gobble here's a treat | G |
| Emmets are most delicious meat | G |
| Spare not spare not How blest were we | H |
| Could we here live from poulterers free | H |
| Accurs d man on turkeys preys | I |
| Christmas to us no holy days | I |
| When with the oyster sauce and chine | J |
| We roast that aldermen may dine | J |
| They call us 'alderman in chains ' | - |
| With sausages the stupid swains | I |
| Ah gluttony is sure the first | K |
| Of all the seven sins the worst | K |
| I'd choke mankind had I the power | L |
| From peasant's hut to lordly bower | L |
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| An ant who on a neighbouring beech | M |
| Had climbed the trunk beyond her reach | M |
| Thus said to her You turkey hen | J |
| What right have you to rail on men | J |
| You nor compunction know nor feel | N |
| But gobble nations at a meal | N |
John Gay
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