The Fox And The Hen. - A Fable Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Speaking within compass as to fabulousness I prefer	A
Southcote to Northcote	B
PIGROGROMITUS	C
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One day or night no matter where or when	D
Sly Reynard like a foot pad laid his pad	B
Right on the body of a speckled Hen	D
Determined upon taking all she had	B
And like a very bibber at his bottle	E
Began to draw the claret from her throttle	E
Of course it put her in a pretty pucker	A
And with a scream as high	F
As she could cry	F
She call'd for help she had enough of sucker	A
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Dame Partlet's scream	G
Waked luckily the house dog from his dream	G
And with a savage growl	H
In answer to the fowl	H
He bounded forth against the prowling sinner	A
And uninvited came to the Fox Dinner	A
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Sly Reynard heedful of the coming doom	I
Thought self deceived	B
He should not be perceived	B
Hiding his brush within a neighboring broom	I
But quite unconscious of a Poacher's snare	J
And caught in copper noose	C
And looking like a goose	C
Found that his fate had hung upon a hare	J
His tricks and turns were rendered of no use to him	K
And worst of all he saw old surly Tray	L
Coming to play	L
Tray Deuce with him	K
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Tray an old Mastiff bred at Dunstable	L
Under his Master a most special constable	L
Instead of killing Reynard in a fury	M
Seized him for legal trial by a Jury	M
But Juries sop was a sheriff then	D
Consisted of twelve Brutes and not of Men	D
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But first the Elephant sat on the body	M
I mean the Hen and proved that she was dead	B
To the veriest fool's head	B
Of the Booby and the Noddy	B
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Accordingly the Stork brought in a bill	L
Quite true enough to kill	L
And then the Owl was call'd for mark	N
The Owl can witness in the dark	N
To make the evidence more plain	O
The Lynx connected all the chain	O
In short there was no quirk or quibble	L
At which a legal Rat could nibble	L
The Culprit was as far beyond hope's bounds	C
As if the Jury had been packed of hounds	C
Reynard however at the utmost nick	P
Is seldom quite devoid of shift and trick	P
Accordingly our cunning Fox	C
Through certain influence obscurely channel'd	B
A friendly Camel got into the box	C
When 'gainst his life the Jury was impanel'd	B
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Now in the Silly Isles such is the law	L
If Jurors should withdraw	L
They are to have no eating and no drinking	Q
Till all are starved into one way of thinking	Q
Thus Reynard's Jurors who could not agree	M
Were lock'd up strictly without bit or mummock	Q
Till every Beast that only had one stomach	R
Bent to the Camel who was blest with three	M
To do them justice they debated	B
From four till ten while dinner waited	B
When thirst and hunger got the upper	A
And each inclin'd to mercy and hot supper	A
Not Guilty was the word and Master Fox	C
Was freed to murder other hens and cocks	C
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MORAL	L
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What moral greets us by this tale's assistance	C
But that the Solon is a sorry Solon	S
Who makes the full stop of a Man's existence	C
Depend upon a Colon	S

Thomas Hood

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