A Mock Charon. Dialogue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDDEEFF GHH IIJJ HDDCJ| CHA W | A |
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| W Charon thou slave thou fooll thou cavaleer | B |
| CHA A slave a fool what traitor's voice I hear | B |
| W Come bring thy boat CH No sir W No sirrah why | C |
| CHA The blest will disagree and fiends will mutiny | D |
| At thy at thy un numbred treachery | D |
| W Villain I have a pass which who disdains | E |
| I will sequester the Elizian plains | E |
| CHA Woes me ye gentle shades where shall I dwell | F |
| He's come It is not safe to be in hell | F |
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| CHORUS | G |
| Thus man his honor lost falls on these shelves | H |
| Furies and fiends are still true to themselves | H |
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| CHA You must lost fool come in W Oh let me in | I |
| But now I fear thy boat will sink with my ore weighty sin | I |
| Where courteous Charon am I now CHA Vile rant | J |
| At the gates of thy supreme Judge Rhadamant | J |
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| DOUBLE CHORUS OF DIVELS | H |
| Welcome to rape to theft to perjurie | D |
| To all the ills thou wert we canot hope to be | D |
| Oh pitty us condemned Oh cease to wooe | C |
| And softly softly breath least you infect us too | J |
Richard Lovelace
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