Farewell Ungrateful Traitor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDDDB EBEBFFFC GBGBAAAB| Farewell ungrateful traitor | A |
| Farewell my perjured swain | B |
| Let never injured creature | A |
| Believe a man again | C |
| The pleasure of possessing | D |
| Surpasses all expressing | D |
| But 'tis too short a blessing | D |
| And love too long a pain | B |
| - | |
| 'Tis easy to deceive us | E |
| In pity of your pain | B |
| But when we love you leave us | E |
| To rail at you in vain | B |
| Before we have descried it | F |
| There is no bliss beside it | F |
| But she that once has tried it | F |
| Will never love again | C |
| - | |
| The passion you pretended | G |
| Was only to obtain | B |
| But when the charm is ended | G |
| The charmer you disdain | B |
| Your love by ours we measure | A |
| Till we have lost our treasure | A |
| But dying is a pleasure | A |
| When living is a pain | B |
John Dryden
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