Poems, Poems, Poems!

The first thing I noticed while reading the Mysteries of Udolpho is the amount of poems we find within the book. They are used to explain a character's actions, at the beginning of chapters to set the mood, and even just muses the characters came up themselves. This may cause interpreting the actions and emotions of the characters to become simple, but then again it also depends on how you make of it. Also, please make not that each chapter begins with a simple and short exerpt from these poems that set the tone of each chapter. Use it as a reference in case you are ever confused about anything within the book.

Sonnet

Go, pencil! faithful to thy master's sight!

Go---tell the Goddess of the fair scene,

When next her light steps wind these wood-walks green,

Whence all his tears, his tender sorrows, rise;

Ah! paint her form, her soul-illumin'd eyes,

The sweet expression of her pensive face,

The light'ning smile, the animated grace--

The portrait well the lover's voice supplies;

Speaks all his heart must feel, his tounge would say:

Yet ah! not all his heart must sadly feel!

How oft the flow'ret's silken leaves conceal

The drug that steals the vital spark away!

And who that gazes on that angle-smile,

Would fear its charm, or think it could beguile!