To Eliza Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HIJI KLKL MNMN OEOE CGCF FEFE CPCP| 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 | I |
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| This terrible truth even Scripture has told | K |
| Ye Benedicks hear me and listen with rapture | L |
| If a glimpse of redemption you wish to behold | K |
| Of ST MATT read the second and twentieth chapter | L |
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| 'Tis surely enough upon earth to be vex'd | M |
| With wives who eternal confusion are spreading | N |
| But in Heaven so runs the Evangelists' Text | M |
| We neither have giving in marriage or wedding | N |
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| From this we suppose as indeed well we may | O |
| That should Saints after death with their spouses put up more | E |
| And wives as in life aim at absolute sway | O |
| All Heaven would ring with the conjugal uproar | E |
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| Distraction and Discord would follow in course | C |
| Nor MATTHEW nor MARK nor ST PAUL can deny it | G |
| The only expedient is general divorce | C |
| To prevent universal disturbance and riot | F |
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| But though husband and wife shall at length be disjoin'd | F |
| Yet woman and man ne'er were meant to dissever | E |
| Our chains once dissolv'd and our hearts unconfin'd | F |
| We'll love without bonds but we'll love you for ever | E |
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| Though souls are denied you by fools and by rakes | C |
| Should you own it yourselves I would even then doubt you | P |
| Your nature so much of celestial partakes | C |
| The Garden of Eden would wither without you | P |
George Gordon Lord Byron
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