O Intelligence Moving The Third Heaven Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDECCFGGFHH IJKJIKLMNOMPP MIQIMQQRPPRSS TCUCTUURVVRWW FXYZFYYA2B2| O Intelligences moving the third heaven | A |
| the reasons heed that from my heart come forth | B |
| so new it seems that no one else should know | C |
| The heaven set in motion by your worth | D |
| beings in gentleness created even | E |
| keeps my existence in its present woe | C |
| so that to speak of what I feel and know | C |
| means to converse most worthily with you | F |
| I beg you then to listen to me well | G |
| Of something in me new I now will tell | G |
| how grief and sadness this my soul subdue | F |
| and how a contradiction from afar | H |
| speaks through the rays descending from your star | H |
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| A thought of loveliness seems now to be | I |
| life to my ailing heart it used to fly | J |
| oft to the very presence of your Sire | K |
| and there a glorious Lady sitting high | J |
| it also saw who spoke so pleasingly | I |
| my soul would say Up there dwells my desire | K |
| Now one appears which I in dread admire | L |
| a mighty lord that makes it flee away | M |
| so mighty terror from my heart outflows | N |
| To me he brings a lady very close | O |
| and Who salvation seeks I hear him say | M |
| let him but gaze into this lady s eyes | P |
| if he can suffer agony of sighs | P |
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| Such is the contradiction it can slay | M |
| the humble thought that is still telling me | I |
| of a fair angel up in heaven crowned | Q |
| My soul bemoans its present misery | I |
| saying Unhappy me How fast away | M |
| went he in whom I had some solace found | Q |
| And of my eyes it says with mournful sound | Q |
| When was it such a lady pierced their sight | R |
| Why did they fail to see me in her guise | P |
| I said Oh surely in this lady s eyes | P |
| the one must dwell who kills my peers with fright | R |
| To no avail I warned them Oh my dread | S |
| but look at her they did and I fell dead | S |
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| Oh no not dead you are bewildered much | T |
| O my poor soul so pained and grieving so | C |
| replies a loving spirit kind and sweet | U |
| For the fair woman that you feel and know | C |
| has changed your life so quickly and so much | T |
| you now are trembling in your vile defeat | U |
| Look how humility and mercy meet | U |
| in one so wise and gentle in her height | R |
| so call her Lady as by now you must | V |
| And you will see if steadfast is your trust | V |
| such lofty miracles such full delight | R |
| you ll say O Love true lord do as you please | W |
| here is your humble handmaid on her knees | W |
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| My song I do believe that those are few | F |
| who can unravel your most hidden sense | X |
| so intricate and mighty is your wit | Y |
| Therefore if by some fate or circumstance | Z |
| you stray and venture among people who | F |
| seem not completely to have fathomed it | Y |
| oh then I pray console yourself a bit | Y |
| and say O lovely latest song to them | A2 |
| Notice at least how beautiful I am | B2 |
Dante Alighieri
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