To Miss E.p. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGFH IJKJ LMLM NONO PFPF DHDG GFGF DQDQ| A | |
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| Eliza what fools are the Mussulman sect | B |
| Who to woman deny the soul's future existence | C |
| Could they see thee Eliza they'd own their defect | B |
| And this doctrine would meet with a general resistance | C |
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| Had their Prophet possess'd but an atom of sense | D |
| He ne'er would have woman from Paradise driven | E |
| But instead of his Houris a flimsy pretence | D |
| With woman alone he had peopled his Heaven | E |
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| But still to increase your calamities more | F |
| Not content with depriving your bodies of spirit | G |
| He allots but one husband to share amongst four | F |
| With souls you'd dispense but this last who could bear it | H |
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| His religion to please neither party is made | I |
| On husbands 'tis hard to the wives most uncivil | J |
| But I can't contradict what so oft has been said | K |
| Though women are angels yet wedlock's the devil | J |
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| This terrible truth even Scripture has told | L |
| Ye Benedicks hear me and listen with rapture | M |
| If a glimpse of redemption you wish to behold | L |
| Of St MATT read the second and twentieth chapter | M |
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| 'Tis surely enough upon earth to be vex'd | N |
| With wives who eternal confusion are spreading | O |
| But in Heaven so runs the Evangelist's Text | N |
| We neither have giving in marriage or wedding | O |
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| From this we suppose as indeed well we may | P |
| That should Saints after death with their spouses put up more | F |
| And wives as in life aim at absolute sway | P |
| All Heaven would ring with the conjugal uproar | F |
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| Distraction and discord would follow in course | D |
| Nor MATTHEW nor MARK nor St PAUL can deny it | H |
| The only expedient is general divorce | D |
| To prevent universal disturbance and riot | G |
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| But though husband and wife shall at length be disjoin'd | G |
| Yet woman and man ne'er were meant to dissever | F |
| Our chains once dissolv'd and our hearts unconfin'd | G |
| We'll love without bonds but we'll love you forever | F |
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| Though souls are denied you by fools and by rakes | D |
| Should you own it yourselves I would even then doubt you | Q |
| Your nature so much of celestial partakes | D |
| The Garden of Eden would wither without you | Q |
George Gordon Byron
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