Arraignment Of The Men Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCA DEED FGGF HIIH FJJF KLLK MNNM JMMJ FLLF OPPQ MHHM| Males perverse schooled to condemn | A |
| Women by your witless laws | B |
| Though forsooth you are prime cause | C |
| Of that which you blame in them | A |
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| If with unexampled care | D |
| You solicit their disdain | E |
| Will your fair words ease their pain | E |
| When you ruthless set the snare | D |
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| Their resistance you impugn | F |
| Then maintain with gravity | G |
| That it was mere levity | G |
| Made you dare to importune | F |
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| What more elevating sight | H |
| Than of man with logic crass | I |
| Who with hot breath fogs the glass | I |
| Then laments it is not bright | H |
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| Scorn and favor favor scorn | F |
| What you will result the same | J |
| Treat you ill and earn your blame | J |
| Love you well be left forlorn | F |
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| Scant regard will she possess | K |
| Who with caution wends her way | L |
| Is held thankless for her nay | L |
| And as wanton for her yes | K |
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| What must be the rare caprice | M |
| Of the quarry you engage | N |
| If she flees she wakes your rage | N |
| If she yields her charms surcease | M |
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| Who shall bear the heavier blame | J |
| When remorse the twain enthralls | M |
| She who for the asking falls | M |
| He who asking brings to shame | J |
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| Whose the guilt where to begin | F |
| Though both yield to passion's sway | L |
| She who weakly sins for pay | L |
| He who strong yet pays for Sin | F |
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| Then why stare ye if we prove | O |
| That the guilt lies at your gate | P |
| Either love those you create | P |
| Or create those you can love | Q |
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| To solicitation truce | M |
| Then sire with some show of right | H |
| You may mock the hapless plight | H |
| Or the creatures of your use | M |
Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz
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