Love And Folly (from La Fontaine) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFEG HIHIJKJK LMLMNONO PQPRSTST UHUHVAVA| Love's worshippers alone can know | A |
| The thousand mysteries that are his | B |
| His blazing torch his twanging bow | C |
| His blooming age are mysteries | D |
| A charming science but the day | E |
| Were all too short to con it o'er | F |
| So take of me this little lay | E |
| A sample of its boundless lore | G |
| - | |
| As once beneath the fragrant shade | H |
| Of myrtles breathing heaven's own air | I |
| The children Love and Folly played | H |
| A quarrel rose betwixt the pair | I |
| Love said the gods should do him right | J |
| But Folly vowed to do it then | K |
| And struck him o'er the orbs of sight | J |
| So hard he never saw again | K |
| - | |
| His lovely mother's grief was deep | L |
| She called for vengeance on the deed | M |
| A beauty does not vainly weep | L |
| Nor coldly does a mother plead | M |
| A shade came o'er the eternal bliss | N |
| That fills the dwellers of the skies | O |
| Even stony hearted Nemesis | N |
| And Rhadamanthus wiped their eyes | O |
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| Behold she said this lovely boy | P |
| While streamed afresh her graceful tears | Q |
| Immortal yet shut out from joy | P |
| And sunshine all his future years | R |
| The child can never take you see | S |
| A single step without a staff | T |
| The harshest punishment would be | S |
| Too lenient for the crime by half | T |
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| All said that Love had suffered wrong | U |
| And well that wrong should be repaid | H |
| Then weighed the public interest long | U |
| And long the party's interest weighed | H |
| And thus decreed the court above | V |
| Since Love is blind from Folly's blow | A |
| Let Folly be the guide of Love | V |
| Where'er the boy may choose to go | A |
William Cullen Bryant
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