The Third Epigram Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDDEEDD| On an ATHEIST | A |
| Posthumus boasts he does not Thunder fear | B |
| And for this cause would Innocent appear | B |
| That in his Soul no Terrour he does feel | C |
| At threatn'd Vultures or Ixion's Wheel | C |
| Which fright the Guilty But when Fabius told | D |
| What Acts 'gainst Murder lately were enrol'd | D |
| 'Gainst Incest Rapine straight upon the Tale | E |
| His Colour chang'd and Posthumus grew pale | E |
| His Impious Courage had no other Root | D |
| But that the Villaine Atheist was to boot | D |
Anne Killigrew
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