To The Lady Dursley Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHI| Here reading how fond Adam was betray'd | A |
| And how by sin Eve's blasted charms decay'd | A |
| Our common loss unjustly you complain | B |
| So small that part of it which you sustain | B |
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| You still fair mother in your offspring trace | C |
| The stock of beauty destined for the race | C |
| Kind Nature forming them the pattern took | D |
| From heaven's first work and Eve's original look | D |
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| You happy saint the serpent's power control | E |
| Scarce any actual guilt defiles your soul | E |
| And hell does o'er that mind vain triumphs boast | F |
| Which gains does o'er that mind vain triumphs boast | F |
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| With virtue strong as yours had Eve been arm'd | G |
| In vain the fruit had blush'd or serpent charm'd | G |
| Nor had our bliss by penitence been bought | H |
| Nor had frail Adam fall'n nor Milton wrote | I |
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