The Libertine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHGIJK| A thousand martyrs I have made | A |
| All sacrificed to my desire | B |
| A thousand beauties have betray'd | A |
| That languish in resistless fire | B |
| The untamed heart to hand I brought | C |
| And fix'd the wild and wand'ring thought | C |
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| I never vow'd nor sigh'd in vain | D |
| But both tho' false were well received | E |
| The fair are pleased to give us pain | D |
| And what they wish is soon believed | E |
| And tho' I talk'd of wounds and smart | F |
| Love's pleasures only touch'd my heart | F |
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| Alone the glory and the spoil | G |
| I always laughing bore away | H |
| The triumphs without pain or toil | G |
| Without the hell the heaven of joy | I |
| And while I thus at random rove | J |
| Despise the fools that whine for love | K |
Aphra Behn
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