Quid Non Supremus, Amantes? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJWhy is there in the least touch of her hands | A |
More grace than other women's lips bestow | B |
If love is but a slave in fleshly bands | A |
Of flesh to flesh wherever love may go | B |
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Why choose vain grief and heavy hearted hours | C |
For her lost voice and dear remembered hair | D |
If love may cull his honey from all flowers | C |
And girls grow thick as violets everywhere | D |
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Nay She is gone and all things fall apart | E |
Or she is cold and vainly have we prayed | F |
And broken is the summer's splendid heart | E |
And hope within a deep dark grave is laid | F |
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As man aspires and falls yet a soul springs | G |
Out of his agony of flesh at last | H |
So love that flesh enthralls shall rise on wings | G |
Soul centred when the rule of flesh is past | H |
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Then most High Love or wreathed with myrtle sprays | I |
Or crownless and forlorn nor less a star | J |
Thee may I serve and follow all my days | I |
Whose thorns are sweet as never roses are | J |
Ernest Christopher Dowson
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