Love And The Gentle Heart Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCA ADDA EFGH IJ| Love and the gentle heart are one thing | A |
| just as the poet says in his verse | B |
| each from the other one as well divorced | C |
| as reason from the mind s reasoning | A |
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| Nature craves love and then creates love king | A |
| and makes the heart a palace where he ll stay | D |
| perhaps a shorter or a longer day | D |
| breathing quietly gently slumbering | A |
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| Then beauty in a virtuous woman s face | E |
| makes the eyes yearn and strikes the heart | F |
| so that the eyes desire s reborn again | G |
| and often rooting there with longing stays | H |
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| Till love at last out of its dreaming starts | I |
| Woman s moved likewise by a virtuous man | J |
Dante Alighieri
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