After Tibullus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBDCBCDEDEFGHFHFG IJBKLKMMBMINNOIOIDPE EPDD| Illius est nobis lege colendus amor | A |
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| On her own terms O lover must thou take | B |
| The heart's beloved be she kind 'tis well | C |
| Cruel expect no more not for thy sake | B |
| But for the fire in thee that melts her snows | D |
| For a brief spell | C |
| She loves thee loves thee Though thy heart should break | B |
| Though thou shouldst lie athirst for her in hell | C |
| She could not pity thee who of the Rose | D |
| Or of the Moon asks pity or return | E |
| Of love for love and she is even as those | D |
| Beauty is she thou Love and thou must learn | E |
| O lover this | F |
| Thine is she for the music thou canst pour | G |
| Through her white limbs the madness the deep dream | H |
| Thine while thy kiss | F |
| Can sweep her flaming with thee down the stream | H |
| That is not thou nor she but merely bliss | F |
| The music ended she is thine no more | G |
| - | |
| In her Eternal Beauty bends o'er thee | I |
| Be thou content | J |
| She is the evening star in thy hushed lake | B |
| Mirrored be glad | K |
| A soul less creature of the element | L |
| Nor good nor bad | K |
| That which thou callest to in the far skies | M |
| Comes to thee in her eyes | M |
| That thou mayst slake | B |
| Thy love of lilies lo her breasts Be wise | M |
| Ask not that she as thou should human be | I |
| She that doth smell so sweet of distant heaven | N |
| Pity is mortal leaven | N |
| Dews know it not nor morning on the hills | O |
| And who hath yet found pity of the sea | I |
| That blesses knowing not and not knowing kills | O |
| And sister unto all of these is she | I |
| Whose face as theirs none reads whose heart none knows | D |
| Whose words are as the wind's words and whose ways | P |
| O lover learn | E |
| Swerve not or turn | E |
| Aside for prayers or broken hearted praise | P |
| The young moon looks not back as on she goes | D |
| On their own terms O lover Girl Moon Rose | D |
Richard Le Gallienne
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