The Relapse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EDED FGFG| O turn away those cruel eyes | A |
| The stars of my undoing | B |
| Or death in such a bright disguise | A |
| May tempt a second wooing | B |
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| Punish their blind and impious pride | C |
| Who dare contemn thy glory | D |
| It was my fall that deified | C |
| Thy name and seal'd thy story | D |
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| Yet no new sufferings can prepare | E |
| A higher praise to crown thee | D |
| Though my first death proclaim thee fair | E |
| My second will unthrone thee | D |
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| Lovers will doubt thou canst entice | F |
| No other for thy fuel | G |
| And if thou burn one victim twice | F |
| Both think thee poor and cruel | G |
Thomas Stanley
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