Libera Me Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBC DDD EEE FFF GGG HHH| Goddess the laughter loving Aphrodite befriend | A |
| Long have I served thine altars serve me now at the end | A |
| Let me have peace of thee truce of thee golden one send | A |
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| Heart of my heart have I offered thee pain of my pain | B |
| Yielding my life for the love of thee into thy chain | B |
| Lady and goddess be merciful loose me again | C |
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| All things I had that were fairest my dearest and best | D |
| Fed the fierce flames on thine altar ah surely my breast | D |
| Shrined thee alone among goddesses spurning the rest | D |
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| Blossom of youth thou hast plucked of me flower of my days | E |
| Stinted I nought in thine honouring walked in thy ways | E |
| Song of my soul pouring out to thee all in thy praise | E |
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| Fierce was the flame while it lasted and strong was thy wine | F |
| Meet for immortals that die not for throats such as thine | F |
| Too fierce for bodies of mortals too potent for mine | F |
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| Blossom and bloom hast thou taken now render to me | G |
| Ashes of life that remain to me few though they be | G |
| Truce of the love of thee Cyprian let me go free | G |
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| Goddess the laughter loving Aphrodite restore | H |
| Life to the limbs of me liberty hold me no more | H |
| Having the first fruits and flower of me cast me the core | H |
Ernest Christopher Dowson
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