Poems
Chloe’s a Nymph in flowery groves,A Nereid in the streams;Saint-like she in the temple moves,A woman in my dreams.
Love steals artillery from her eyes,The Graces point her charms;Orpheus is rivalled in her voice,And Venus in her arms.
Never so happily in oneDid heaven and earth combine:And yet ’tis flesh and blood aloneThat makes her so divine.
Words in this poem
- artillery n.
- Munitions of war; implements for warfare, as slings, bows, and arrows. [OE. artilrie, OF. artillerie, arteillerie, fr. LL. artillaria, artilleria, machines and apparatus of all kinds used in war, vans laden with arms of any kind whi]
- orpheus n.
- The famous mythic Thracian poet, son of the Muse Calliope, and husband of Eurydice. He is reputed to have had power to entrance beasts and inanimate objects by the music of his lyre.
- happily adv.
- By chance; peradventure; haply. Piers Plowman. [From Happy.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Poems is in the public domain. This text is taken from The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900, Project Gutenberg ebook #66619; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Thomas D’urfey, Poems, (1653–1723), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #66619, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/obev-thomas-durfey/chloe-divine.html, id L16115.
Form and metre
Chloe Divine is 12 lines in 3 stanzas of 4 lines each. The metre is common measure, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 82%). 87% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 7.4 syllables. 1 line ends on an unstressed syllable, a feminine ending. 17% of the lines run on without a stop at the line end.
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Measured by Laurel's pipeline, not copied from a handbook: how stress and metre are counted, how rhyme is lettered, how a drifted rhyme is found. Where the dictionary cannot confirm a rhyme the letter is withheld, not guessed.
Rhyme words, stanza by stanza
The word that ends each line, lettered by the rhyme it makes; a dash is a line whose rhyme the dictionary could not confirm.
- 1 -A-A groves · streamsA · moves · dreamsA
- 2 -A-A eyes · charmsA · voice · armsA
- 3 AAAA oneA · combineA · aloneA · divineA
Scansion, line by line
Each line with its syllable count and the stresses the words themselves fix: / stressed, ˘ unstressed, · a syllable the word leaves free and the metre decides. Read against common measure. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| Chloe’s a Nymph in flowery groves, | 9 | /˘···/˘˘· |
| A Nereid in the streams; | 7 | ·/˘˘··· |
| Saint-like she in the temple moves, | 8 | ·····/˘· |
| A woman in my dreams. | 6 | ·/˘··· |
| Love steals artillery from her eyes, | 9 | ··˘/˘˘··· |
| The Graces point her charms; | 6 | ·/˘··· |
| Orpheus is rivalled in her voice, | 9 | /˘˘·/˘··· |
| And Venus in her arms. | 6 | ·/˘··· |
| Never so happily in one | 8 | /˘·/˘˘·· |
| Did heaven and earth combine: | 7 | ·/˘··/˘ |
| And yet ’tis flesh and blood alone | 8 | ······˘/ |
| That makes her so divine. | 6 | ····˘/ |
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