Ad Manus Puellae Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB ACACD AEAEE AAAAA| I was always a lover of ladies' hands | A |
| Or ever mine heart came here to tryst | B |
| For the sake of your carved white hands' commands | A |
| The tapering fingers the dainty wrist | B |
| The hands of a girl were what I kissed | B |
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| I remember an hand like a fleur de lys | A |
| When it slid from its silken sheath her glove | C |
| With its odours passing ambergris | A |
| And that was the empty husk of a love | C |
| Oh how shall I kiss your hands enough | D |
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| They are pale with the pallor of ivories | A |
| But they blush to the tips like a curled sea shell | E |
| What treasure in kingly treasuries | A |
| Of gold and spice for the thurible | E |
| Is sweet as her hands to hoard and tell | E |
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| I know not the way from your finger tips | A |
| Nor how I shall gain the higher lands | A |
| The citadel of your sacred lips | A |
| I am captive still of my pleasant bands | A |
| The hands of a girl and most your hands | A |
Ernest Dowson
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