Song (love) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCC DDEEFFG HHII JJKLMM| Oh love that stronger art than Wine | A |
| Pleasing Delusion Witchery divine | A |
| Wont to be priz'd above all Wealth | B |
| Disease that has more Joys than Health | B |
| Though we blaspheme thee in our Pain | C |
| And of Tyranny complain | C |
| We are all better'd by thy Reign | C |
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| What Reason never can bestow | D |
| We to this useful Passion owe | D |
| Love wakes the dull from sluggish ease | E |
| And learns a Clown the Art to please | E |
| Humbles the Vain kindles the Cold | F |
| Makes Misers free and Cowards bold | F |
| And teaches airy Fops to think | G |
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| When full brute Appetite is fed | H |
| And choaked the Glutton lies and dead | H |
| Thou new Spirits dost dispense | I |
| And fine'st the gross Delights of Sense | I |
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| Virtue's unconquerable Aid | J |
| That against Nature can persuade | J |
| And makes a roving Mind retire | K |
| Within the Bounds of just Desire | L |
| Chearer of Age Youth's kind Unrest | M |
| And half the Heaven of the blest | M |
Aphra Behn
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