Paradiso: Canto I Poem Rhyme Scheme

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The glory of Him who moveth everything	A
Doth penetrate the universe and shine	B
In one part more and in another less	C
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Within that heaven which most his light receives	D
Was I and things beheld which to repeat	E
Nor knows nor can who from above descends	F
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Because in drawing near to its desire	G
Our intellect ingulphs itself so far	H
That after it the memory cannot go	I
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Truly whatever of the holy realm	J
I had the power to treasure in my mind	K
Shall now become the subject of my song	L
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O good Apollo for this last emprise	M
Make of me such a vessel of thy power	G
As giving the beloved laurel asks	N
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One summit of Parnassus hitherto	O
Has been enough for me but now with both	P
I needs must enter the arena left	Q
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Enter into my bosom thou and breathe	R
As at the time when Marsyas thou didst draw	S
Out of the scabbard of those limbs of his	T
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O power divine lend'st thou thyself to me	U
So that the shadow of the blessed realm	J
Stamped in my brain I can make manifest	V
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Thou'lt see me come unto thy darling tree	U
And crown myself thereafter with those leaves	D
Of which the theme and thou shall make me worthy	U
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So seldom Father do we gather them	W
For triumph or of Caesar or of Poet	X
The fault and shame of human inclinations	Y
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That the Peneian foliage should bring forth	Z
Joy to the joyous Delphic deity	U
When any one it makes to thirst for it	A2
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A little spark is followed by great flame	B2
Perchance with better voices after me	U
Shall prayer be made that Cyrrha may respond	C2
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To mortal men by passages diverse	D2
Uprises the world's lamp but by that one	E2
Which circles four uniteth with three crosses	T
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With better course and with a better star	H
Conjoined it issues and the mundane wax	F2
Tempers and stamps more after its own fashion	E2
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Almost that passage had made morning there	G2
And evening here and there was wholly white	H2
That hemisphere and black the other part	I2
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When Beatrice towards the left hand side	J2
I saw turned round and gazing at the sun	E2
Never did eagle fasten so upon it	A2
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And even as a second ray is wont	K2
To issue from the first and reascend	K2
Like to a pilgrim who would fain return	L2
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Thus of her action through the eyes infused	K2
In my imagination mine I made	K2
And sunward fixed mine eyes beyond our wont	K2
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There much is lawful which is here unlawful	M2
Unto our powers by virtue of the place	N2
Made for the human species as its own	O2
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Not long I bore it nor so little while	P2
But I beheld it sparkle round about	K2
Like iron that comes molten from the fire	G
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And suddenly it seemed that day to day	K2
Was added as if He who has the power	G
Had with another sun the heaven adorned	K2
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With eyes upon the everlasting wheels	Q2
Stood Beatrice all intent and I on her	G
Fixing my vision from above removed	K2
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Such at her aspect inwardly became	B2
As Glaucus tasting of the herb that made him	R2
Peer of the other gods beneath the sea	U
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To represent transhumanise in words	S2
Impossible were the example then suffice	T2
Him for whom Grace the experience reserves	U2
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If I was merely what of me thou newly	U
Createdst Love who governest the heaven	E2
Thou knowest who didst lift me with thy light	K2
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When now the wheel which thou dost make eternal	M2
Desiring thee made me attentive to it	K2
By harmony thou dost modulate and measure	G
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Then seemed to me so much of heaven enkindled	K2
By the sun's flame that neither rain nor river	G
E'er made a lake so widely spread abroad	K2
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The newness of the sound and the great light	K2
Kindled in me a longing for their cause	V2
Never before with such acuteness felt	K2
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Whence she who saw me as I saw myself	W2
To quiet in me my perturbed mind	K2
Opened her mouth ere I did mine to ask	X2
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And she began 'Thou makest thyself so dull	M2
With false imagining that thou seest not	K2
What thou wouldst see if thou hadst shaken it off	Y2
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Thou art not upon earth as thou believest	K2
But lightning fleeing its appropriate site	K2
Ne'er ran as thou who thitherward returnest '	-
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If of my former doubt I was divested	K2
By these brief little words more smiled than spoken	E2
I in a new one was the more ensnared	K2
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And said 'Already did I rest content	K2
From great amazement but am now amazed	K2
In what way I transcend these bodies light '	-
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Whereupon she after a pitying sigh	Z2
Her eyes directed tow'rds me with that look	A3
A mother casts on a delirious child	K2
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And she began 'All things whate'er they be	U
Have order among themselves and this is form	B3
That makes the universe resemble God	K2
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Here do the higher creatures see the footprints	C3
Of the Eternal Power which is the end	K2
Whereto is made the law already mentioned	K2
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In the order that I speak of are inclined	K2
All natures by their destinies diverse	D2
More or less near unto their origin	E2
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Hence they move onward unto ports diverse	D2
O'er the great sea of being and each one	E2
With instinct given it which bears it on	D3
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This bears away the fire towards the moon	E3
This is in mortal hearts the motive power	G
This binds together and unites the earth	F3
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Nor only the created things that are	H
Without intelligence this bow shoots forth	Z
But those that have both intellect and love	G3
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The Providence that regulates all this	H3
Makes with its light the heaven forever quiet	K2
Wherein that turns which has the greatest haste	K2
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And thither now as to a site decreed	K2
Bears us away the virtue of that cord	K2
Which aims its arrows at a joyous mark	I3
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True is it that as oftentimes the form	B3
Accords not with the intention of the art	K2
Because in answering is matter deaf	J3
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So likewise from this course doth deviate	K2
Sometimes the creature who the power possesses	K3
Though thus impelled to swerve some other way	K2
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In the same wise as one may see the fire	G
Fall from a cloud if the first impetus	L3
Earthward is wrested by some false delight	K2
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Thou shouldst not wonder more if well I judge	M3
At thine ascent than at a rivulet	K2
From some high mount descending to the lowland	K2
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Marvel it would be in thee if deprived	K2
Of hindrance thou wert seated down below	I
As if on earth the living fire were quiet '	-
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Thereat she heavenward turned again her face	N2

Dante Alighieri

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