Against Constancy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIK| Tell me no more of constancy | A |
| The frivolous pretense | B |
| Of old age narrow jealousy | A |
| Disease and want of sense | B |
| - | |
| Let duller fools on whom kind chance | C |
| Some easy heart has thrown | D |
| Despairing higher to advance | C |
| Be kind to one alone | D |
| - | |
| Old men and weak whose idle flame | E |
| Their own defects discovers | F |
| Since changing can but spread their shame | E |
| Ought to be constant lovers | F |
| - | |
| But we whose hearts do justly swell | G |
| With no vainglorious pride | H |
| Who know how we in love excel | G |
| Long to be often tried | H |
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| Then bring my bath and strew my bed | I |
| As each kind night returns | J |
| I'll change a mistress till I'm dead | I |
| And fate change me for worms | K |
John Wilmot
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