The Ox Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACBBCDBEFGE| Here is a tale for farmer and for peasant | A |
| There was an ox who might have ploughed for Jason | B |
| So strong was he his huge head like a bason | B |
| A Gothic helmet with enormous crescent | A |
| Stolid of look and slow of hoof and steady | C |
| Meek was the beast and born but to be driven | B |
| Unmindful of the yoke which toil had given | B |
| Toil with his goad and lash for ever ready | C |
| One day a bull who was the bullock's neighbor | D |
| Proud as a sultan haremed with his women | B |
| Lowed to the ox who had received a beating | E |
| 'You are a fool What have you for your labour | F |
| Blows and bad food Go to Why don't you show men ' | G |
| The ox was but an ox and went on eating | E |
Madison Julius Cawein
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