Amor Umbratilis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG HFHF AIAI| A gift of Silence sweet | A |
| Who may not ever hear | B |
| To lay down at your unobservant feet | A |
| Is all the gift I bear | C |
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| I have no songs to sing | D |
| That you should heed or know | E |
| I have no lilies in full hands to fling | D |
| Across the path you go | E |
| - | |
| I cast my flowers away | F |
| Blossoms unmeet for you | G |
| The garland I have gathered in my day | F |
| My rosemary and rue | G |
| - | |
| I watch you pass and pass | H |
| Serene and cold I lay | F |
| My lips upon your trodden daisied grass | H |
| And turn my life away | F |
| - | |
| Yea for I cast you sweet | A |
| This one gift you shall take | I |
| Like ointment on your unobservant feet | A |
| My silence for your sake | I |
Ernest Christopher Dowson
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