De Amore Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCCEFFEF GHHGIIJJKLLKL MNNMOOPPKKQEQERRKK STTSUUVKKV| Shall one be sorrowful because of love | A |
| Which hath no earthly crown | B |
| Which lives and dies unknown | C |
| Because no words of his shall ever move | D |
| Her maiden heart to own | C |
| Him lord and destined master of her own | C |
| Is Love so weak a thing as this | E |
| Who can not lie awake | F |
| Solely for his own sake | F |
| For lack of the dear hands to hold the lips to kiss | E |
| A mere heart ache | F |
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| Nay though love's victories be great and sweet | G |
| Nor vain and foolish toys | H |
| His crowned earthly joys | H |
| Is there no comfort then in love's defeat | G |
| Because he shall defer | I |
| For some short span of years all part in her | I |
| Submitting to forego | J |
| The certain peace which happier lovers know | J |
| Because he shall be utterly disowned | K |
| Nor length of service bring | L |
| Her least awakening | L |
| Foiled frustrate and alone misunderstood discrowned | K |
| Is Love less King | L |
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| Grows not the world to him a fairer place | M |
| How far soever his days | N |
| Pass from his lady's ways | N |
| From mere encounter with her golden face | M |
| Though all his sighing be vain | O |
| Shall he be heavy hearted and complain | O |
| Is she not still a star | P |
| Deeply to be desired worshipped afar | P |
| A beacon light to aid | K |
| From bitter sweet delights Love's masquerade | K |
| Though he lose many things | Q |
| Though much he miss | E |
| The heart upon his heart the hand that clings | Q |
| The memorable first kiss | E |
| Love that is love at all | R |
| Needs not an earthly coronal | R |
| Love is himself his own exceeding great reward | K |
| A mighty lord | K |
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| Lord over life and all the ways of breath | S |
| Mighty and strong to save | T |
| From the devouring grave | T |
| Yea whose dominion doth out tyrant death | S |
| Thou who art life and death in one | U |
| The night the sun | U |
| Who art when all things seem | V |
| Foiled frustrate and forlorn rejected of to day | K |
| Go with me all my way | K |
| And let me not blaspheme | V |
Ernest Christopher Dowson
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