A Song (to This Moment A Rebel I Throw Down My Arms) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJJ KLAA| To this moment a rebel I throw down my arms | A |
| Great Love at first sight of Olinda's bright charms | A |
| Make proud and secure by such forces as these | B |
| You may now play the tyrant as soon as you please | B |
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| When Innocence Beauty and Wit do conspire | C |
| To betray and engage and inflame my Desire | C |
| Why should I decline what I cannot avoid | D |
| And let pleasing Hope by base Fear be destroyed | D |
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| Her innocence cannot contrive to undo me | E |
| Her beauty's inclined or why should it pursue me | E |
| And Wit has to Pleasure been ever a friend | F |
| Then what room for Despair since Delight is Love's end | F |
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| There can be no danger in sweetness and youth | G |
| Where Love is secured by good nature and truth | G |
| On her beauty I'll gaze and of pleasure complain | H |
| While every kind look adds a link to my chain | H |
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| 'Tis more to maintain than it was to surprise | I |
| But her Wit leads in triumpth the slave of her eyes | I |
| I beheld with the loss of my freedom before | J |
| But hearing forever must serve and adore | J |
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| Too bright is my Goddess her temple too weak | K |
| Retire divine image I feel my heart break | L |
| Help Love I dissolve in a rapture of charms | A |
| At the thought of those joys I should meet in her arms | A |
John Wilmot
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