The Donkey And His Panniers. A Fable Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAB ACAC ACAC DEDEAFAF AAA AGAH IJKJ LCLC D| fessus jam sudat asellus | A |
| parce illi vestrum delicium est asinus | A |
| VERGIL Copa | B |
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| A donkey whose talent for burdens was wondrous | A |
| So much that you'd swear he rejoiced in a load | C |
| One day had to jog under panniers so ponderous | A |
| That down the poor Donkey fell smack on the road | C |
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| His owners and drivers stood round in amaze | A |
| What Neddy the patient the prosperous Neddy | C |
| So easy to drive thro' the dirtiest ways | A |
| For every description of job work so ready | C |
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| One driver whom Ned might have hailed as a brother | D |
| Had just been proclaiming his Donkey's renown | E |
| For vigor for spirit for one thing or other | D |
| When lo mid his praises the Donkey came down | E |
| But how to upraise him one shouts t'other whistles | A |
| While Jenky the Conjuror wisest of all | F |
| Declared that an over production of thistles | A |
| Here Ned gave a stare was the cause of his fall | F |
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| Another wise Solomon cries as he passes | A |
| There let him alone and the fit will soon cease | A |
| The beast has been fighting with other jack asses | A |
| And this is his mode of 'transition to peace ' | - |
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| Some lookt at his hoofs and with learned grimaces | A |
| Pronounced that too long without shoes he had gone | G |
| Let the blacksmith provide him a sound metal basis | A |
| The wise acres said and he's sure to jog on | H |
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| Meanwhile the poor Neddy in torture and fear | I |
| Lay under his panniers scarce able to groan | J |
| And what was still dolefuller lending an ear | K |
| To advisers whose ears were a match for his own | J |
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| At length a plain rustic whose wit went so far | L |
| As to see others' folly roared out as he past | C |
| Quick off with the panniers all dolts as ye are | L |
| Or your prosperous Neddy will soon kick his last | C |
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| October | D |
Thomas Moore
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