A Woman's Honour Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDF GGGG HIHI JKLK MNMN| Love bade me hope and I obeyed | A |
| Phyllis continued still unkind | B |
| Then you may e'en despair he said | C |
| In vain I strive to change her mind | B |
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| Honour's got in and keeps her heart | D |
| Durst he but venture once abroad | E |
| In my own right I'd take your part | D |
| And show myself the mightier God | F |
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| This huffing Honour domineers | G |
| In breasts alone where he has place | G |
| But if true generous Love appears | G |
| The hector dares not show his face | G |
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| Let me still languish and complain | H |
| Be most unhumanly denied | I |
| I have some pleasure in my pain | H |
| She can have none with all her pride | I |
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| I fall a sacrifice to Love | J |
| She lives a wretch for Honour's sake | K |
| Whose tyrant does most cruel prove | L |
| The difference is not hard to make | K |
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| Consider real Honour then | M |
| You'll find hers cannot be the same | N |
| 'Tis noble confidence in men | M |
| In women mean mistrustful shame | N |
John Wilmot
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