Silentium Amoris Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACCB DEDFFE GFFHHF| As often times the too resplendent sun | A |
| Hurries the pallid and reluctant moon | B |
| Back to her sombre cave ere she hath won | A |
| A single ballad from the nightingale | C |
| So doth thy Beauty make my lips to fail | C |
| And all my sweetest singing out of tune | B |
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| And as at dawn across the level mead | D |
| On wings impetuous some wind will come | E |
| And with its too harsh kisses break the reed | D |
| Which was its only instrument of song | F |
| So my too stormy passions work me wrong | F |
| And for excess of Love my Love is dumb | E |
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| But surely unto Thee mine eyes did show | G |
| Why I am silent and my lute unstrung | F |
| Else it were better we should part and go | F |
| Thou to some lips of sweeter melody | H |
| And I to nurse the barren memory | H |
| Of unkissed kisses and songs never sung | F |
Oscar Wilde
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