On The Best, Last, And Only Remaning Comedy Of Mr. Fletcher. The Wild Goose Chase Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCCCAAAADDEFGGCCCC HHICGGAA JJAAAA GGICAADDGGDDGGCCKK| I'm un ore clowded too free from the mist | A |
| The blind and late Heaven's eyes great Occulist | A |
| Obscured with the false fires of his sceme | B |
| Not half those souls are lightned by this theme | B |
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| Unhappy murmurers that still repine | C |
| After th' Eclipse our Sun doth brighter shine | C |
| Recant your false grief and your true joys know | C |
| Your blisse is endlesse as you fear'd your woe | C |
| What fort'nate flood is this what storm of wit | A |
| Oh who would live and not ore whelm'd in it | A |
| No more a fatal Deluge shall be hurl'd | A |
| This inundation hath sav'd the world | A |
| Once more the mighty Fletcher doth arise | D |
| Roab'd in a vest studded with stars and eyes | D |
| Of all his former glories his last worth | E |
| Imbroiderd with what yet light ere brought forth | F |
| See in this glad farewel he doth appear | G |
| Stuck with the Constellations of his Sphere | G |
| Fearing we numb'd fear'd no flagration | C |
| Hath curl'd all his fires in this one ONE | C |
| Which as they guard his hallowed chast urn | C |
| The dull aproaching hereticks do burn | C |
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| Fletcher at his adieu carouses thus | H |
| To the luxurious ingenious | H |
| As Cleopatra did of old out vie | I |
| Th' un numb'red dishes of her Anthony | C |
| When he at th' empty board a wonderer | G |
| Smiling she calls for pearl and vinegar | G |
| First pledges him in's BREATH then at one draught | A |
| Swallows THREE KINGDOMS of To HIS BEST THOUGHT | A |
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| Hear oh ye valiant writers and subscribe | J |
| His force set by y'are conquer'd by this bribe | J |
| Though you hold out your selves he doth commit | A |
| In this a sacred treason in your wit | A |
| Although in poems desperately stout | A |
| Give up this overture must buy you out | A |
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| Thus with some prodigal us'rer 't doth fare | G |
| That keeps his gold still vayl'd his steel breast bare | G |
| That doth exceed his coffers all but's eye | I |
| And his eyes' idol the wing'd Deity | C |
| That cannot lock his mines with half the art | A |
| As some rich beauty doth his wretched heart | A |
| Wild at his real poverty and so wise | D |
| To win her turns himself into a prise | D |
| First startles her with th' emerald Mad Lover | G |
| The ruby Arcas least she should recover | G |
| Her dazled thought a Diamond he throws | D |
| Splendid in all the bright Aspatia's woes | D |
| Then to sum up the abstract of his store | G |
| He flings a rope of Pearl of forty more | G |
| Ah see the stagg'ring virtue faints which he | C |
| Beholding darts his Wealths Epitome | C |
| And now to consummate her wished fall | K |
| Shows this one Carbuncle that darkens all | K |
Richard Lovelace
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