Cloris Charmes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAABAABCDDB DAADBBBBEEBBFFBGGBB BBBHBBHIIJJBBJKBBKAA LLJJLJMMJNNAABBAACCA OODDBBDGKPQHHBBAAB JMMOBBJJBBJBBBBBBJJB BJ JJJJAABBCCBABBAKKMMG GMDissolved by EUDORA | A |
Not that thy Fair Hand | B |
Should lead me from my deep Dispaire | A |
Or thy Love Cloris End my Care | A |
And back my Steps command | B |
But if hereafter thou Retire | A |
To quench with Tears thy Wandring Fire | A |
This Clue I'll leave behinde | B |
By which thou maist untwine | C |
The Saddest Way | D |
To shun the Day | D |
That ever Grief did find | B |
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First take thy Hapless Way | D |
Along the Rocky Northern Shore | A |
Infamous for the Matchless Store | A |
Of Wracks within that Bay | D |
None o're the Cursed Beach e're crost | B |
Unless the Robb'd the Wrack'd or Lost | B |
Where on the Strand lye spread | B |
The Sculls of many Dead | B |
Their mingl'd Bones | E |
Among the Stones | E |
Thy Wretched Feet must tread | B |
The Trees along the Coast | B |
Stretch forth to Heaven their blasted Arms | F |
As if they plaind the North winds harms | F |
And Youthful Verdure lost | B |
There stands a Grove of Fatal Ewe | G |
Where Sun nere pierc't nor Wind ere blew | G |
In it a Brooke doth fleet | B |
The Noise must guide thy Feet | B |
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For there's no Light | B |
But all is Night | B |
And Darkness that you meet | B |
Follow th' Infernal Wave | H |
Until it spread into a Floud | B |
Poysoning the Creatures of the Wood | B |
There twice a day a Slave | H |
I know not for what Impious Thing | I |
Bears thence the Liquor of that Spring | I |
It adds to the sad Place | J |
To hear how at each Pace | J |
He curses God | B |
Himself his Load | B |
For such his Forlorn Case | J |
Next make no Noyse nor talk | K |
Until th' art past a Narrow Glade | B |
Where Light does only break the Shade | B |
'Tis a Murderers Walk | K |
Observing this thou need'st not fear | A |
He sleeps the Day or Wakes elsewhere | A |
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Though there's no Clock or Chime | L |
The Hour he did his Crime | L |
His Soul awakes | J |
His Conscience quakes | J |
And warns him that's the Time | L |
Thy Steps must next advance | J |
Where Horrour Sin and Spectars dwell | M |
Where the Woods Shade seems turn'd Hell | M |
Witches here Nightly Dance | J |
And Sprights joyn with them when they call | N |
The Murderer dares not view the Ball | N |
For Snakes and Toads conspire | A |
To make them up a Quire | A |
And for their Light | B |
And Torches bright | B |
The Fiends dance all on fire | A |
Press on till thou descrie | A |
Among the Trees sad gastly wan | C |
Thinne as the Shadow of a Man | C |
One that does ever crie | A |
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She is not and she ne're will be | O |
Despair and Death come swallow me | O |
Leave him and keep thy way | D |
No more thou now canst stray | D |
Thy Feet do stand | B |
In Sorrows Land | B |
It's Kingdomes every way | D |
Here Gloomy Light will shew | G |
Reard like a Castle to the Skie | K |
A Horrid Cliffe there standing nigh | P |
Shading a Creek below | Q |
In which Recess there lies a Cave | H |
Dreadful as Hell still as the Grave | H |
Sea Monsters there abide | B |
The coming of the Tide | B |
No Noise is near | A |
To make them fear | A |
God sleep might there reside | B |
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But when the Boysterous Seas | J |
With Roaring Waves resumes this Cell | M |
You'd swear the Thunders there did dwell | M |
So lowd he makes his Plea | O |
So Tempests bellow under ground | B |
And Ecchos multiply the Sound | B |
This is the place I chose | J |
Changeable like my Woes | J |
Now calmly Sad | B |
Then Raging Mad | B |
As move my Bitter Throwes | J |
Such Dread besets this Part | B |
That all the Horrour thou hast past | B |
Are but Degrees to This at last | B |
The sight must break thy Heart | B |
Here Bats and Owles that hate the Light | B |
Fly and enjoy Eternal Night | B |
Scales of Serpents Fish bones | J |
Th' Adders Eye and Toad stones | J |
Are all the Light | B |
Hath blest my Sight | B |
Since first began my Groans | J |
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When thus I lost the Sense | J |
Of all the heathful World calls Bliss | J |
And held it Joy those Joys to miss | J |
When Beauty was Offence | J |
Celestial Strains did read the Aire | A |
Shaking these Mansions of Despaire | A |
A Form Divine and bright | B |
Stroke Day through all that Night | B |
As when Heav'ns Queen | C |
In Hell was seen | C |
With wonder and affright | B |
The Monsters fled for fear | A |
The Terrors of the Cursed Wood | B |
Dismantl'd were and where they stood | B |
No longer did appear | A |
The Gentle Pow'r which wrought this thing | K |
Eudora was who thus did sing | K |
Dissolv'd is Cloris spell | M |
From whence thy Evils fell | M |
Send her this Clue | G |
'Tis there most due | G |
And thy Phantastick Hell | M |
Anne Killigrew
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