Cease Smilng, Dear! A Little While Be Sad Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HIHI JKJC LMLM NKOC PQPQ| Cease smiling Dear a little while be sad | A |
| Here in the silence under the wan moon | B |
| Sweet are thine eyes but how can I be glad | A |
| Knowing they change so soon | B |
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| For Love's sake Dear be silent Cover me | C |
| In the deep darkness of thy falling hair | D |
| Fear is upon me and the memory | C |
| Of what is all men's share | D |
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| O could this moment be perpetuate | E |
| Must we grow old and leaden eyed and gray | F |
| And taste no more the wild and passionate | G |
| Love sorrows of to day | F |
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| Grown old and faded Sweet and past desire | H |
| Let memory die lest there be too much ruth | I |
| Remembering the old extinguished fire | H |
| Of our divine lost youth | I |
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| O red pomegranate of thy perfect mouth | J |
| My lips' life fruitage might I taste and die | K |
| Here in thy garden where the scented south | J |
| Wind chastens agony | C |
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| Reap death from thy live lips in one long kiss | L |
| And look my last into thine eyes and rest | M |
| What sweets had life to me sweeter than this | L |
| Swift dying on thy breast | M |
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| Or if that may not be for Love's sake Dear | N |
| Keep silence still and dream that we shall lie | K |
| Red mouth to mouth entwined and always hear | O |
| The south wind's melody | C |
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| Here in thy garden through the sighing boughs | P |
| Beyond the reach of time and chance and change | Q |
| And bitter life and death and broken vows | P |
| That sadden and estrange | Q |
Ernest Christopher Dowson
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