You Men Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCB ACDA EFFE FGGF EBHE IJJJ CAAD DFFD BAAB FFFF DJJD BBBB FFFF JDDJ BBBB JDDJ FEEF EFFKF AKLK DKAK DBDB MFJF BJJJ FFNF JBAF KABA AOBO JKFD BFAF OABA FDAD FDPD PFDF BAFAEspa ol | A |
Hombres necios que acus is | B |
a la mujer sin raz n | C |
sin ver que sois la ocasi n | C |
de lo mismo que culp is | B |
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si con ansia sin igual | A |
solicit is su desd n | C |
por qu quereis que obren bien | D |
si las incit is al mal | A |
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Combat s su resistencia | E |
y luego con gravedad | F |
dec s que fue liviandad | F |
lo que hizo la diligencia | E |
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Parecer quiere el denuedo | F |
de vuestro parecer loco | G |
al ni o que pone el coco | G |
y luego le tiene miedo | F |
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Quer is con presunci n necia | E |
hallar a la que busc is | B |
para pretendida Thais | H |
y en la posesi n Lucrecia | E |
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Qu humor puede ser m s raro | I |
que el que falto de consejo | J |
el mismo empa a el espejo | J |
y siente que no est claro | J |
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Con el favor y el desd n | C |
ten is condici n igual | A |
quej ndoos si os tratan mal | A |
burl ndoos si os quieren bien | D |
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Opini n ninguna gana | D |
pues la que m s se recata | F |
si no os admite es ingrata | F |
y si os admite es liviana | D |
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Siempre tan necios and is | B |
que con desigual nivel | A |
a una culp is por cr el | A |
y a otra por f cil culp is | B |
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Pues c mo ha de estar templada | F |
la que vuestro amor pretende | F |
si la que es ingrata ofende | F |
y la que es f cil enfada | F |
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Mas entre el enfado y pena | D |
que vuestro gusto refiere | J |
bien haya la que no os quiere | J |
y quejaos en hora buena | D |
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Dan vuestras amantes penas | B |
a sus libertades alas | B |
y despu s de hacerlas malas | B |
las quer is hallar muy buenas | B |
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Cu l mayor culpa ha tenido | F |
en una pasi n errada | F |
la que cae de rogada | F |
o el que ruega de ca do | F |
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O cu l es m s de culpar | J |
aunque cualquiera mal haga | D |
la que peca por la paga | D |
o el que paga por pecar | J |
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Pues para qu e os espant is | B |
de la culpa que ten is | B |
Queredlas cual las hac is | B |
o hacedlas cual las busc is | B |
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Dejad de solicitar | J |
y despu s con m s raz n | D |
acusar is la afici n | D |
de la que os fuere a rogar | J |
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Bien con muchas armas fundo | F |
que lidia vuestra arrogancia | E |
pues en promesa e instancia | E |
junt is diablo carne y mundo | F |
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English | E |
Silly you men so very adept | F |
at wrongly faulting womankind | F |
not seeing you're alone to blame | K |
for faults you plant in woman's mind | F |
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After you've won by urgent plea | A |
the right to tarnish her good name | K |
you still expect her to behave | L |
you that coaxed her into shame | K |
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You batter her resistance down | D |
and then all righteousness proclaim | K |
that feminine frivolity | A |
not your persistence is to blame | K |
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When it comes to bravely posturing | D |
your witlessness must take the prize | B |
you're the child that makes a bogeyman | D |
and then recoils in fear and cries | B |
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Presumptuous beyond belief | M |
you'd have the woman you pursue | F |
be Thais when you're courting her | J |
Lucretia once she falls to you | F |
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For plain default of common sense | B |
could any action be so queer | J |
as oneself to cloud the mirror | J |
then complain that it's not clear | J |
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Whether you're favored or disdained | F |
nothing can leave you satisfied | F |
You whimper if you're turned away | N |
you sneer if you've been gratified | F |
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With you no woman can hope to score | J |
whichever way she's bound to lose | B |
spurning you she's ungrateful | A |
succumbing you call her lewd | F |
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Your folly is always the same | K |
you apply a single rule | A |
to the one you accuse of looseness | B |
and the one you brand as cruel | A |
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What happy mean could there be | A |
for the woman who catches your eye | O |
if unresponsive she offends | B |
yet whose complaisance you decry | O |
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Still whether it's torment or anger | J |
and both ways you've yourselves to blame | K |
God bless the woman who won't have you | F |
no matter how loud you complain | D |
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It's your persistent entreaties | B |
that change her from timid to bold | F |
Having made her thereby naughty | A |
you would have her good as gold | F |
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So where does the greater guilt lie | O |
for a passion that should not be | A |
with the man who pleads out of baseness | B |
or the woman debased by his plea | A |
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Or which is more to be blamed | F |
though both will have cause for chagrin | D |
the woman who sins for money | A |
or the man who pays money to sin | D |
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So why are you men all so stunned | F |
at the thought you're all guilty alike | D |
Either like them for what you've made them | P |
or make of them what you can like | D |
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If you'd give up pursuing them | P |
you'd discover without a doubt | F |
you've a stronger case to make | D |
against those who seek you out | F |
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I well know what powerful arms | B |
you wield in pressing for evil | A |
your arrogance is allied | F |
with the world the flesh and the devil | A |
Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz
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