Give Me Leave To Rail At You Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EFEGHHIJ| Give me leave to rail at you | A |
| I ask nothing but my due | A |
| To call you false and then to say | B |
| You shall not keep my heart a day | B |
| But alas against my will | C |
| I must be your captive still | C |
| Ah be kinder then for I | D |
| Cannot change and would not die | D |
| - | |
| Kindness has resistless charms | E |
| All besides but weakly move | F |
| Fiercest anger it disarms | E |
| And clips the wings of flying love | G |
| Beauty does the heart invade | H |
| Kindness only can persuade | H |
| It gilds the lover's servile chain | I |
| And makes the slave grow pleased again | J |
Lord John Wilmot
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