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theme that criticizes women's supposedly inevitable infidelity. It is written in a lyrical form consisting of three stanzas rhyming ABABCCDDD, with lines that vary in length in a regular sequence. The first stanza demands a variety of impossible feats and the second suggests a life-long journey in
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search of the marvellous. For the speaker, finding female constancy is an impossibility or - the third stanza reflects - should such a rarity be discovered, it would not last.
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