The Ant Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDD EFEFGG HHHHIJ KDKDLM NFOFPQ RFRFHHForbear thou great good husband little ant | A |
A little respite from thy flood of sweat | B |
Thou thine own horse and cart under this plant | A |
Thy spacious tent fan thy prodigious heat | C |
Down with thy double load of that one grain | D |
It is a granarie for all thy train | D |
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Cease large example of wise thrift awhile | E |
For thy example is become our law | F |
And teach thy frowns a seasonable smile | E |
So Cato sometimes the nak'd Florals saw | F |
And thou almighty foe lay by thy sting | G |
Whilst thy unpay'd musicians crickets sing | G |
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Lucasta she that holy makes the day | H |
And 'stills new life in fields of fueillemort | H |
Hath back restor'd their verdure with one ray | H |
And with her eye bid all to play and sport | H |
Ant to work still age will thee truant call | I |
And to save now th'art worse than prodigal | J |
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Austere and cynick not one hour t' allow | K |
To lose with pleasure what thou gotst with pain | D |
But drive on sacred festivals thy plow | K |
Tearing high ways with thy ore charged wain | D |
Not all thy life time one poor minute live | L |
And thy ore labour'd bulk with mirth relieve | M |
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Look up then miserable ant and spie | N |
Thy fatal foes for breaking of their law | F |
Hov'ring above thee Madam Margaret Pie | O |
And her fierce servant meagre Sir John Daw | F |
Thy self and storehouse now they do store up | P |
And thy whole harvest too within their crop | Q |
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Thus we unthrifty thrive within earth's tomb | R |
For some more rav'nous and ambitious jaw | F |
The grain in th' ant's the ant in the pie's womb | R |
The pie in th' hawk's the hawk ith' eagle's maw | F |
So scattering to hord 'gainst a long day | H |
Thinking to save all we cast all away | H |
Richard Lovelace
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