Wild Boar And Ram. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE FFGGHHIIJJKK| A sheep lay tethered and her life | A |
| Fast ebbing on the butcher's knife | A |
| The silly flock looked on with dread | B |
| A wild boar passing them then said | B |
| O cowards cowards will nought make | C |
| The courage of your hearts awake | C |
| What with the butcher in your sight | D |
| Flaying ere life be parted quite | D |
| Your lambs and dams O stolid race | E |
| Who ever witnessed souls so base | E |
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| The patriarch ram then answered him | F |
| My face and bearing are not grim | F |
| But we are not of soul so tame | G |
| As to deny Revenge her claim | G |
| We have no whetted tusks to kill | H |
| Yet are not powerless of ill | H |
| Vengeance the murdering hand pursues | I |
| And retribution claims her dues | I |
| She sends the plagues of war and law | J |
| Where men will battle for a straw | J |
| And our revenge may rest contented | K |
| Since drums and parchment were invented | K |
John Gay
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