A Fable Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDDEEFFGHIIJKL LMMNNOODD PQQRROOSSGH| A raven while with glossy breast | A |
| Her new laid eggs she fondly press'd | A |
| And on her wicker work high mounted | B |
| Her chickens prematurely counted | B |
| A fault philosophers might blame | C |
| If quite exempted from the same | C |
| Enjoy'd at ease the genial day | D |
| 'Twas April as the bumpkins say | D |
| The legislature call'd it May | D |
| But suddenly a wind as high | E |
| As ever swept a winter sky | E |
| Shook the young leaves about her ears | F |
| And fill'd her with a thousand fears | F |
| Lest the rude blast should snap the bough | G |
| And spread her golden hopes below | H |
| But just at eve the blowing weather | I |
| And all her fears were hush'd together | I |
| And now quoth poor unthinking Ralph | J |
| 'Tis over and the brood is safe | K |
| For ravens though as birds of omen | L |
| They teach both conjurors and old women | L |
| To tell us what is to befall | M |
| Can t prophesy themselves at all | M |
| The morning came when neighbour Hodge | N |
| Who long had mark'd her airy lodge | N |
| And destined all the treasure there | O |
| A gift to his expecting fair | O |
| Climb d like a squirrel to his dray | D |
| And bore the worthless prize away | D |
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| Moral | P |
| 'Tis Providence alone secures | Q |
| In every change both mine and yours | Q |
| Safety consists not in escape | R |
| From dangers of a frightful shape | R |
| An earthquake may be bid to spare | O |
| The man that s strangled by a hair | O |
| Fate steals along with silent tread | S |
| Found oft nest in what least we dread | S |
| Frowns in the storm with angry brow | G |
| But in the sunshine strikes the blow | H |
William Cowper
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