Vitam Impendere Amori Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDF GHGG FCIC JCKG GLGM NOPQ MRSR MTUT GVCW CXYZ A2GPP GGB2S VYC2Y GPGP GGB2SVitam Impendere Amori To Threaten Life for Love | A |
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Love is dead within your arms | B |
Do you remember his encounter | C |
He s dead you restore the charms | B |
He returns at your encounter | C |
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Another spring of springs gone past | D |
I think of all its tenderness | E |
Farewell season done at last | D |
You ll return as tenderly | F |
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In the evening light that s faded | G |
Where our several loves brush by | H |
Your memory lies enchained | G |
Far from our shades that die | G |
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O hands bound by memory | F |
Burning like a funeral pyre | C |
Where the last black Phoenix | I |
Perfection comes to respire | C |
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Link by link the chain wears thin | J |
Deriding us your memory | C |
Flies ah hear it you who rail | K |
I kneel again at your feet | G |
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You ve not surprised my secret yet | G |
Already the cort ge moves on | L |
But left to us is the regret | G |
of there being no connivance none | M |
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The rose floats at the water s edge | N |
The maskers have passed by in crowds | O |
It trembles in me like a bell | P |
This heavy secret you ask now | Q |
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Evening falls and in the garden | M |
Women tell their histories | R |
to Night that not without disdain | S |
spills their dark hair s mysteries | R |
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Little children little children | M |
Your wings have flown away | T |
But you rose that defend yourself | U |
Throw your unrivalled scents away | T |
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For now s the hour of petty theft | G |
Of plumes of flowers and of tresses | V |
Gather the fountain jets so free | C |
Of whom the roses are mistresses | W |
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You descended through the water clear | C |
I drowned my self so in your glance | X |
The soldier passes she leans down | Y |
Turns and breaks away a branch | Z |
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You float on nocturnal waves | A2 |
The flame is my own heart reversed | G |
Coloured as that comb s tortoiseshell | P |
The wave that bathes you mirrors well | P |
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O my abandoned youth is dead | G |
Like a garland faded | G |
Here the season comes again | B2 |
Of suspicion and disdain | S |
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The landscape s formed of canvasses | V |
A false stream of blood flows down | Y |
And under the tree the stars glow fresh | C2 |
The only passer by s a clown | Y |
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The glass in the frame has cracked | G |
An air defined uncertainly | P |
Hovers between sound and thought | G |
Between to be and memory | P |
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O my abandoned youth is dead | G |
Like a garland faded | G |
Here the season comes again | B2 |
Of suspicion and disdain | S |
Guillaume Apollinaire
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