Venite Descendamus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD CECE CFCF| Let be at last give over words and sighing | A |
| Vainly were all things said | B |
| Better at last to find a place for lying | A |
| Only dead | B |
| - | |
| Silence were best with songs and sighing over | C |
| Now be the music mute | D |
| Now let the dead red leaves of autumn cover | C |
| A vain lute | D |
| - | |
| Silence is best for ever and for ever | C |
| We will go down and sleep | E |
| Somewhere beyond her ken where she need never | C |
| Come to weep | E |
| - | |
| Let be at last colder she grows and colder | C |
| Sleep and the night were best | F |
| Lying at last where we cannot behold her | C |
| We may rest | F |
Ernest Christopher Dowson
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