Amor Mundi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C DEFE G H C E B| The Shilling Magazine | A |
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| 'Oh where are you going with your love locks flowing | B |
| On the west wind blowing along this valley track ' | - |
| 'The downhill path is easy come with me an' it please ye | C |
| We shall escape the uphill by never turning back ' | - |
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| So they two went together in glowing August weather | D |
| The honey breathing heather lay to their left and right | E |
| And dear she was to doat on her swift feet seemed to float on | F |
| The air like soft twin pigeons too sportive to alight | E |
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| 'Oh what is that in heaven where grey cloud flakes are seven | G |
| Where blackest clouds hang riven just at the rainy skirt ' | - |
| 'Oh that's a meteor sent us a message dumb portentous | H |
| An undeciphered solemn signal of help or hurt ' | - |
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| 'Oh what is that glides quickly where velvet flowers grow thickly | C |
| Their scent comes rich and sickly ' 'A scaled and hooded worm ' | - |
| 'Oh what's that in the hollow so pale I quake to follow ' | - |
| 'Oh that's a thin dead body which waits th' eternal term ' | - |
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| 'Turn again O my sweetest turn again false and fleetest | E |
| This way whereof thou weetest I fear is hell's own track ' | - |
| 'Nay too steep for hill mounting nay too late for cost counting | B |
| This downhill path is easy but there's no turning back ' | - |
Christina Georgina Rossetti
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