To Eliza Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HIJ| Eliza what fools are the Mussulman sect | A |
| Who to woman deny the soul's future existence | B |
| Could they see thee Eliza they'd own their defect | A |
| And this doctrine would meet with a general resistance | B |
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| Had their prophet possess'd half an atom of sense | C |
| He ne'er would have woman from paradise driven | D |
| Instead of his houris a flimsy pretence | C |
| With woman alone he had peopled his heaven | D |
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| Yet still to increase your calamities more | E |
| Not Content with depriving your bodies of spirit | F |
| He allots one poor husband to share amongst four | E |
| With souls you'd dispense but this last who could bear it | G |
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| His religion to please neither party is made | H |
| On husbands 'tis hard to the wives most uncivil | I |
| Still I Can't contradict what so oft has been said | J |
| 'Though women are angels yet wedlock's the devil ' | - |
George Gordon Byron
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