Can Vei La Lauzeta Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB C D E F| When I see the lark joyfully moving its wings against the sun's rays and falling because of the sweetness that enters its heart ah a great envy comes upon me of all those who I see happy I am astonished that my heart does not melt with desire | A |
| Alas I thought I knew so much about love and I know so little because I cannot stop loving the one from whom I will never obtain anything She has taken my heart myself herself and the whole world and has left me with nothing but yearning and a languishing heart | B |
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| I no longer have power over myself and am no longer my own person from the moment when she lets me look into her eyes that mirror that pleases me so Mirror since I am mirrored in you my sighs have caused my death for I am lost just as Narcissus lost himself in the fountain | C |
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| I despair of women never more shall I trust them As once I exalted them now shall I cast them down Since I see that not one of them is for me against she who destroys and confounds me I doubt and mistrust them all since I well know they are all the same | D |
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| And in this I see that my lady is very much a woman and that is why I criticize her For she does not want that which she should want and that which she is forbidden she does I am fallen very low and I have acted like the fool on the bridge And I don't know why this has happened to me unless it's because I tried to mount too high | E |
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| Since nothing works any more with my lady neither prayers nor pity nor my rights concerning her and since it no longer pleases her that I love her I will never more say it to her And so I take my leave and go away from her She has killed me and I respond to her with death And I leave since she doesn't retain me I the unhappy one into exile I know not where | F |
Bernard De Ventadorn
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