The Art Of Love: Book Two Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDEDDDDFGHIDDJDGG KLCMN| Short partings do best though time wears out affections | A |
| The absent love fades a new one takes its place | B |
| With Menelaus away Helen's disinclination for sleeping | C |
| Alone led her into her guest's | D |
| Warm bed at night Were you crazy Menelaus | D |
| Why go off leaving your wife | E |
| With a stranger in the house Do you trust doves to falcons | D |
| Full sheepfolds to mountain wolves | D |
| Here Helen's not at fault the adulterer's blameless | D |
| He did no more than you or any man else | D |
| Would do yourself By providing place and occasion | F |
| You precipitated the act What else did she do | G |
| But act on your clear advice Husband gone this stylish stranger | H |
| Here on the spot too scared to sleep alone | I |
| Oh Helen wins my acquittal the blame's her husband's | D |
| All she did was take advantage of a man's | D |
| Human complaisance And yet more savage than the tawny | J |
| Boar in his rage as he tosses the maddened dogs | D |
| On lightening tusks or a lioness suckling her unweaned | G |
| Cubs or the tiny adder crushed | G |
| By some careless foot is a woman's wrath when some rival | K |
| Is caught in the bed she shares Her feelings show | L |
| On her face Decorum's flung to the wind a maenadic | C |
| Frenzy grips her she rushes headlong off | M |
| After fire and steel | N |
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