Cloris Charmes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Dissolved by EUDORAA
Not that thy Fair HandB
Should lead me from my deep DispaireA
Or thy Love Cloris End my CareA
And back my Steps commandB
But if hereafter thou RetireA
To quench with Tears thy Wandring FireA
This Clue I'll leave behindeB
By which thou maist untwineC
The Saddest WayD
To shun the DayD
That ever Grief did findB
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First take thy Hapless WayD
Along the Rocky Northern ShoreA
Infamous for the Matchless StoreA
Of Wracks within that BayD
None o're the Cursed Beach e're crostB
Unless the Robb'd the Wrack'd or LostB
Where on the Strand lye spreadB
The Sculls of many DeadB
Their mingl'd BonesE
Among the StonesE
Thy Wretched Feet must treadB
The Trees along the CoastB
Stretch forth to Heaven their blasted ArmsF
As if they plaind the North winds harmsF
And Youthful Verdure lostB
There stands a Grove of Fatal EweG
Where Sun nere pierc't nor Wind ere blewG
In it a Brooke doth fleetB
The Noise must guide thy FeetB
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For there's no LightB
But all is NightB
And Darkness that you meetB
Follow th' Infernal WaveH
Until it spread into a FloudB
Poysoning the Creatures of the WoodB
There twice a day a SlaveH
I know not for what Impious ThingI
Bears thence the Liquor of that SpringI
It adds to the sad PlaceJ
To hear how at each PaceJ
He curses GodB
Himself his LoadB
For such his Forlorn CaseJ
Next make no Noyse nor talkK
Until th' art past a Narrow GladeB
Where Light does only break the ShadeB
'Tis a Murderers WalkK
Observing this thou need'st not fearA
He sleeps the Day or Wakes elsewhereA
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Though there's no Clock or ChimeL
The Hour he did his CrimeL
His Soul awakesJ
His Conscience quakesJ
And warns him that's the TimeL
Thy Steps must next advanceJ
Where Horrour Sin and Spectars dwellM
Where the Woods Shade seems turn'd HellM
Witches here Nightly DanceJ
And Sprights joyn with them when they callN
The Murderer dares not view the BallN
For Snakes and Toads conspireA
To make them up a QuireA
And for their LightB
And Torches brightB
The Fiends dance all on fireA
Press on till thou descrieA
Among the Trees sad gastly wanC
Thinne as the Shadow of a ManC
One that does ever crieA
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She is not and she ne're will beO
Despair and Death come swallow meO
Leave him and keep thy wayD
No more thou now canst strayD
Thy Feet do standB
In Sorrows LandB
It's Kingdomes every wayD
Here Gloomy Light will shewG
Reard like a Castle to the SkieK
A Horrid Cliffe there standing nighP
Shading a Creek belowQ
In which Recess there lies a CaveH
Dreadful as Hell still as the GraveH
Sea Monsters there abideB
The coming of the TideB
No Noise is nearA
To make them fearA
God sleep might there resideB
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But when the Boysterous SeasJ
With Roaring Waves resumes this CellM
You'd swear the Thunders there did dwellM
So lowd he makes his PleaO
So Tempests bellow under groundB
And Ecchos multiply the SoundB
This is the place I choseJ
Changeable like my WoesJ
Now calmly SadB
Then Raging MadB
As move my Bitter ThrowesJ
Such Dread besets this PartB
That all the Horrour thou hast pastB
Are but Degrees to This at lastB
The sight must break thy HeartB
Here Bats and Owles that hate the LightB
Fly and enjoy Eternal NightB
Scales of Serpents Fish bonesJ
Th' Adders Eye and Toad stonesJ
Are all the LightB
Hath blest my SightB
Since first began my GroansJ
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When thus I lost the SenseJ
Of all the heathful World calls BlissJ
And held it Joy those Joys to missJ
When Beauty was OffenceJ
Celestial Strains did read the AireA
Shaking these Mansions of DespaireA
A Form Divine and brightB
Stroke Day through all that NightB
As when Heav'ns QueenC
In Hell was seenC
With wonder and affrightB
The Monsters fled for fearA
The Terrors of the Cursed WoodB
Dismantl'd were and where they stoodB
No longer did appearA
The Gentle Pow'r which wrought this thingK
Eudora was who thus did singK
Dissolv'd is Cloris spellM
From whence thy Evils fellM
Send her this ClueG
'Tis there most dueG
And thy Phantastick HellM

Anne Killigrew



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