The "living Dog" And "the Dead Lion." Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAA CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLML NOPO Q A| Next week will be published as Lives are the rage | A |
| The whole Reminiscences wondrous and strange | B |
| Of a small puppy dog that lived once in the cage | A |
| Of the late noble Lion at Exeter 'Change | A |
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| Tho' the dog is a dog of the kind they call sad | C |
| 'Tis a puppy that much to good breeding pretends | D |
| And few dogs have such opportunities had | C |
| Of knowing how Lions behave among friends | D |
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| How that animal eats how he snores how he drinks | E |
| Is all noted down by this Boswell so small | F |
| And 'tis plain from each sentence the puppy dog thinks | E |
| That the Lion was no such great things after all | F |
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| Tho' he roared pretty well this the puppy allows | G |
| It was all he says borrowed all second hand roar | H |
| And he vastly prefers his own little bow wows | G |
| To the loftiest war note the Lion could pour | H |
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| 'Tis indeed as good fun as a Cynic could ask | I |
| To see how this cockney bred setter of rabbits | J |
| Takes gravely the Lord of the Forest to task | I |
| And judges of lions by puppy dog habits | J |
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| Nay fed as he was and this makes it a dark case | K |
| With sops every day from the Lion's own pan | L |
| He lifts up his leg at the noble beast's carcass | M |
| And does all a dog so diminutive can | L |
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| However the book's a good book being rich in | N |
| Examples and warnings to lions high bred | O |
| How they suffer small mongrelly curs in their kitchen | P |
| Who'll feed on them living and foul them when dead | O |
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| T PIDCOCK | Q |
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| Exeter 'Change | A |
Thomas Moore
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