Quid Non Supremus, Amantes? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ| Why 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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