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Strephon And Chloe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Of Chloe all the town has rung	A
By ev'ry size of poets sung	A
So beautiful a nymph appears	B
But once in twenty thousand years	B
By Nature form'd with nicest care	C
And faultless to a single hair	C
Her graceful mien her shape and face	D
Confess'd her of no mortal race	D
And then so nice and so genteel	E
Such cleanliness from head to heel	E
No humours gross or frouzy steams	F
No noisome whiffs or sweaty streams	F
Before behind above below	G
Could from her taintless body flow	G
Would so discreetly things dispose	H
None ever saw her pluck a rose	H
Her dearest comrades never caught her	I
Squat on her hams to make maid's water	I
You'd swear that so divine a creature	I
Felt no necessities of nature	I
In summer had she walk'd the town	J
Her armpits would not stain her gown	J
At country dances not a nose	H
Could in the dog days smell her toes	H
Her milk white hands both palms and backs	K
Like ivory dry and soft as wax	K
Her hands the softest ever felt	L
Though cold would burn though dry would melt	L
Dear Venus hide this wond'rous maid	M
Nor let her loose to spoil your trade	M
While she engrosses ev'ry swain	N
You but o'er half the world can reign	N
Think what a case all men are now in	O
What ogling sighing toasting vowing	P
What powder'd wigs what flames and darts	Q
What hampers full of bleeding hearts	Q
What sword knots what poetic strains	R
What billets doux and clouded canes	R
But Strephon sigh'd so loud and strong	S
He blew a settlement along	S
And bravely drove his rivals down	J
With coach and six and house in town	J
The bashful nymph no more withstands	T
Because her dear papa commands	T
The charming couple now unites	U
Proceed we to the marriage rites	U
Imprimis at the Temple porch	V
Stood Hymen with a flaming torch	V
The smiling Cyprian Goddess brings	W
Her infant loves with purple wings	W
And pigeons billing sparrows treading	P
Fair emblems of a fruitful wedding	P
The Muses next in order follow	G
Conducted by their squire Apollo	G
Then Mercury with silver tongue	A
And Hebe goddess ever young	A
Behold the bridegroom and his bride	X
Walk hand in hand and side by side	X
She by the tender Graces drest	X
But he by Mars in scarlet vest	X
The nymph was cover'd with her flammeum	Y
And Phoebus sung th'epithalamium	Y
And last to make the matter sure	Z
Dame Juno brought a priest demure	Z
Luna was absent on pretence	W
Her time was not till nine months hence	W
The rites perform'd the parson paid	X
In state return'd the grand parade	X
With loud huzzas from all the boys	W
That now the pair must crown their joys	W
But still the hardest part remains	W
Strephon had long perplex'd his brains	W
How with so high a nymph he might	X
Demean himself the wedding night	X
For as he view'd his person round	X
Mere mortal flesh was all he found	X
His hand his neck his mouth and feet	X
Were duly wash'd to keep them sweet	X
With other parts that shall be nameless	W
The ladies else might think me shameless	W
The weather and his love were hot	X
And should he struggle I know what	X
Why let it go if I must tell it	X
He'll sweat and then the nymph may smell it	X
While she a goddess dyed in grain	N
Was unsusceptible of stain	N
And Venus like her fragrant skin	O
Exhaled ambrosia from within	O
Can such a deity endure	Z
A mortal human touch impure	Z
How did the humbled swain detest	X
His prickly beard and hairy breast	X
His night cap border'd round with lace	W
Could give no softness to his face	W
Yet if the goddess could be kind	X
What endless raptures must he find	X
And goddesses have now and then	A2
Come down to visit mortal men	A2
To visit and to court them too	X
A certain goddess God knows who	X
As in a book he heard it read	X
Took Col'nel Peleus to her bed	X
But what if he should lose his life	B2
By vent'ring on his heavenly wife	B2
For Strephon could remember well	C2
That once he heard a school boy tell	C2
How Semele of mortal race	W
By thunder died in Jove's embrace	W
And what if daring Strephon dies	W
By lightning shot from Chloe's eyes	W
While these reflections fill'd his head	X
The bride was put in form to bed	X
He follow'd stript and in he crept	X
But awfully his distance kept	X
Now ponder well ye parents dear	D2
Forbid your daughters guzzling beer	D2
And make them ev'ry afternoon	E2
Forbear their tea or drink it soon	E2
That ere to bed they venture up	F2
They may discharge it ev'ry sup	F2
If not they must in evil plight	X
Be often forc'd to rise at night	X
Keep them to wholesome food confin'd	X
Nor let them taste what causes wind	X
'Tis this the sage of Samos means	W
Forbidding his disciples beans	W
O think what evils must ensue	X
Miss Moll the jade will burn it blue	X
And when she once has got the art	X
She cannot help it for her heart	X
But out it flies even when she meets	W
Her bridegroom in the wedding sheets	W
Carminative and diuretic	G2
Will damp all passion sympathetic	G2
And Love such nicety requires	W
One blast will put out all his fires	W
Since husbands get behind the scene	H2
The wife should study to be clean	H2
Nor give the smallest room to guess	W
The time when wants of nature press	W
But after marriage practise more	I2
Decorum than she did before	I2
To keep her spouse deluded still	J2
And make him fancy what she will	J2
In bed we left the married pair	C
'Tis time to show how things went there	C
Strephon who had been often told	X
That fortune still assists the bold	X
Resolved to make the first attack	K2
But Chloe drove him fiercely back	K2
How could a nymph so chaste as Chloe	L2
With constitution cold and snowy	L2
Permit a brutish man to touch her	I
Ev'n lambs by instinct fly the butcher	I
Resistance on the wedding night	X
Is what our maidens claim by right	X
And Chloe 'tis by all agreed	X
Was maid in thought in word and deed	X
Yet some assign a different reason	M2
That Strephon chose no proper season	M2
Say fair ones must I make a pause	W
Or freely tell the secret cause	W
Twelve cups of tea with grief I speak	N2
Had now constrain'd the nymph to leak	N2
This point must needs be settled first	X
The bride must either void or burst	X
Then see the dire effects of pease	W
Think what can give the colic ease	W
The nymph oppress'd before behind	X
As ships are toss'd by waves and wind	X
Steals out her hand by nature led	X
And brings a vessel into bed	X
Fair utensil as smooth and white	X
As Chloe's skin almost as bright	X
Strephon who heard the fuming rill	J2
As from a mossy cliff distil	J2
Cried out Ye Gods what sound is this	W
Can Chloe heavenly Chloe	L2
But when he smelt a noisome steam	Y
Which oft attends that lukewarm stream	Y
Salerno both together joins	W
As sov'reign med'cines for the loins	W
And though contriv'd we may suppose	W
To slip his ears yet struck his nose	W
He found her while the scent increast	X
As mortal as himself at least	X
But soon with like occasions prest	X
He boldly sent his hand in quest	X
Inspired with courage from his bride	X
To reach the pot on t'other side	X
And as he fill'd the reeking vase	W
Let fly a rouser in her face	W
The little Cupids hov'ring round	X
As pictures prove with garlands crown'd	X
Abash'd at what they saw and heard	X
Flew off nor ever more appear'd	X
Adieu to ravishing delights	W
High raptures and romantic flights	W
To goddesses so heav'nly sweet	X
Expiring shepherds at their feet	X
To silver meads and shady bowers	W
Dress'd up with amaranthine flowers	W
How great a change how quickly made	X
They learn to call a spade a spade	X
They soon from all constraint are freed	X
Can see each other do their need	X
On box of cedar sits the wife	B2
And makes it warm for dearest life	B2
And by the beastly way of thinking	P
Find great society in stinking	P
Now Strephon daily entertains	W
His Chloe in the homeliest strains	W
And Chloe more experienc'd grown	O2
With int'rest pays him back his own	O2
No maid at court is less asham'd	X
Howe'er for selling bargains fam'd	X
Than she to name her parts behind	X
Or when a bed to let out wind	X
Fair Decency celestial maid	X
Descend from Heaven to Beauty's aid	X
Though Beauty may beget desire	I
'Tis thou must fan the Lover's fire	I
For Beauty like supreme dominion	M2
Is best supported by Opinion	M2
If Decency bring no supplies	W
Opinion falls and Beauty dies	W
To see some radiant nymph appear	D2
In all her glitt'ring birth day gear	D2
You think some goddess from the sky	P2
Descended ready cut and dry	P2
But ere you sell yourself to laughter	I
Consider well what may come after	I
For fine ideas vanish fast	X
While all the gross and filthy last	X
O Strephon ere that fatal day	X
When Chloe stole your heart away	X
Had you but through a cranny spy'd	X
On house of ease your future bride	X
In all the postures of her face	W
Which nature gives in such a case	W
Distortions groanings strainings heavings	W
'Twere better you had lick'd her leavings	W
Than from experience find too late	X
Your goddess grown a filthy mate	X
Your fancy then had always dwelt	X
On what you saw and what you smelt	X
Would still the same ideas give ye	L2
As when you spy'd her on the privy	L2
And spite of Chloe's charms divine	Q2
Your heart had been as whole as mine	Q2
Authorities both old and recent	X
Direct that women must be decent	X
And from the spouse each blemish hide	X
More than from all the world beside	X
Unjustly all our nymphs complain	N
Their empire holds so short a reign	N
Is after marriage lost so soon	E2
It hardly lasts the honey moon	E2
For if they keep not what they caught	X
It is entirely their own fault	X
They take possession of the crown	J
And then throw all their weapons down	J
Though by the politician's scheme	Y
Whoe'er arrives at power supreme	Y
Those arts by which at first they gain it	X
They still must practise to maintain it	X
What various ways our females take	R2
To pass for wits before a rake	R2
And in the fruitless search pursue	W
All other methods but the true	W
Some try to learn polite behaviour	W
By reading books against their Saviour	W
Some call it witty to reflect	X
On ev'ry natural defect	X
Some shew they never want explaining	P
To comprehend a double meaning	P
But sure a tell tale out of school	S2
Is of all wits the greatest fool	S2
Whose rank imagination fills	W
Her heart and from her lips distils	W
You'd think she utter'd from behind	X
Or at her mouth was breaking wind	X
Why is a handsome wife ador'd	X
By every coxcomb but her lord	X
From yonder puppet man inquire	W
Who wisely hides his wood and wire	W
Shows Sheba's queen completely drest	X
And Solomon in royal vest	X
But view them litter'd on the floor	W
Or strung on pegs behind the door	W
Punch is exactly of a piece	W
With Lorrain's duke and prince of Greece	W
A prudent builder should forecast	X
How long the stuff is like to last	X
And carefully observe the ground	X
To build on some foundation sound	X
What house when its materials crumble	T2
Must not inevitably tumble	T2
What edifice can long endure	W
Raised on a basis unsecure	W
Rash mortals ere you take a wife	B2
Contrive your pile to last for life	B2
Since beauty scarce endures a day	X
And youth so swiftly glides away	X
Why will you make yourself a bubble	T2
To build on sand with hay and stubble	T2
On sense and wit your passion found	X
By decency cemented round	X
Let prudence with good nature strive	U2
To keep esteem and love alive	U2
Then come old age whene'er it will	J2
Your friendship shall continue still	J2
And thus a mutual gentle fire	W
Shall never but with life expire	W