Fable Or History Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGFFHHEI| Possessed of royal appetite and feeling rather thin | A |
| A monkey one day dressed himself in a tiger's skin | A |
| The tiger had been nasty the monkey was atrocious | B |
| Wearing on his back the right to be ferocious | B |
| He set himself to gnashing teeth and let loose with this cry | C |
| Conqueror of the jungle the night's dark king am I | C |
| As a bandit of the forest in the bushes he lurked | D |
| And snatched away and murdered and other horrors worked | D |
| Laid waste the forest slit the throats of those passing through | E |
| And with the skin that covered him did all it used to do | E |
| He lived within a cave knee deep in butchery | F |
| And all who saw the skin believed the tiger was he | F |
| He would cry out would bring forth a truly terrible roar | G |
| Behold within my cave the bones of victims before | G |
| Before me all draw back and shudder everyone doth flee | F |
| All tremble I am tiger Look and worship me | F |
| The animals were all awe struck and fled with great alarm | H |
| A lion tamer came and grabbed him with his arm | H |
| And ripped off the tiger's skin like a flimsy piece of tissue | E |
| Laid bare this 'conqueror' and said 'You're just a monkey you ' | I |
Victor Marie Hugo
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