Paradiso: Canto Ii Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Paradiso Canto	A
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O Ye who in some pretty little boat	B
Eager to listen have been following	C
Behind my ship that singing sails along	D
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Turn back to look again upon your shores	E
Do not put out to sea lest peradventure	F
In losing me you might yourselves be lost	G
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The sea I sail has never yet been passed	H
Minerva breathes and pilots me Apollo	A
And Muses nine point out to me the Bears	I
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Ye other few who have the neck uplifted	J
Betimes to th' bread of Angels upon which	K
One liveth here and grows not sated by it	L
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Well may you launch upon the deep salt sea	M
Your vessel keeping still my wake before you	N
Upon the water that grows smooth again	O
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Those glorious ones who unto Colchos passed	H
Were not so wonder struck as you shall be	M
When Jason they beheld a ploughman made	P
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The con created and perpetual thirst	Q
For the realm deiform did bear us on	R
As swift almost as ye the heavens behold	S
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Upward gazed Beatrice and I at her	F
And in such space perchance as strikes a bolt	T
And flies and from the notch unlocks itself	U
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Arrived I saw me where a wondrous thing	C
Drew to itself my sight and therefore she	M
From whom no care of mine could be concealed	V
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Towards me turning blithe as beautiful	W
Said unto me 'Fix gratefully thy mind	X
On God who unto the first star has brought us '	-
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It seemed to me a cloud encompassed us	Y
Luminous dense consolidate and bright	Z
As adamant on which the sun is striking	C
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Into itself did the eternal pearl	A2
Receive us even as water doth receive	B2
A ray of light remaining still unbroken	C2
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If I was body and we here conceive not	D2
How one dimension tolerates another	F
Which needs must be if body enter body	M
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More the desire should be enkindled in us	Y
That essence to behold wherein is seen	E2
How God and our own nature were united	F2
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There will be seen what we receive by faith	G2
Not demonstrated but self evident	H2
In guise of the first truth that man believes	I2
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I made reply 'Madonna as devoutly	M
As most I can do I give thanks to Him	J2
Who has removed me from the mortal world	K2
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But tell me what the dusky spots may be	M
Upon this body which below on earth	L2
Make people tell that fabulous tale of Cain '	-
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Somewhat she smiled and then 'If the opinion	C2
Of mortals be erroneous ' she said	M2
'Where'er the key of sense doth not unlock	N2
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Certes the shafts of wonder should not pierce thee	M
Now forasmuch as following the senses	O2
Thou seest that the reason has short wings	P2
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But tell me what thou think'st of it thyself '	-
And I 'What seems to us up here diverse	Q2
Is caused I think by bodies rare and dense '	-
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And she 'Right truly shalt thou see immersed	Q
In error thy belief if well thou hearest	Q
The argument that I shall make against it	Q
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Lights many the eighth sphere displays to you	N
Which in their quality and quantity	Q
May noted be of aspects different	Q
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If this were caused by rare and dense alone	R2
One only virtue would there be in all	S2
Or more or less diffused or equally	Q
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Virtues diverse must be perforce the fruits	T2
Of formal principles and these save one	C2
Of course would by thy reasoning be destroyed	Q
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Besides if rarity were of this dimness	T2
The cause thou askest either through and through	N
This planet thus attenuate were of matter	F
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Or else as in a body is apportioned	Q
The fat and lean so in like manner this	T2
Would in its volume interchange the leaves	T2
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Were it the former in the sun's eclipse	T2
It would be manifest by the shining through	N
Of light as through aught tenuous interfused	Q
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This is not so hence we must scan the other	F
And if it chance the other I demolish	U2
Then falsified will thy opinion be	Q
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But if this rarity go not through and through	N
There needs must be a limit beyond which	K
Its contrary prevents the further passing	C
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And thence the foreign radiance is reflected	Q
Even as a colour cometh back from glass	T2
The which behind itself concealeth lead	Q
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Now thou wilt say the sunbeam shows itself	U
More dimly there than in the other parts	T2
By being there reflected farther back	V2
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From this reply experiment will free thee	Q
If e'er thou try it which is wont to be	Q
The fountain to the rivers of your arts	T2
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Three mirrors shalt thou take and two remove	W2
Alike from thee the other more remote	Q
Between the former two shall meet thine eyes	T2
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Turned towards these cause that behind thy back	V2
Be placed a light illuming the three mirrors	T2
And coming back to thee by all reflected	Q
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Though in its quantity be not so ample	W
The image most remote there shalt thou see	Q
How it perforce is equally resplendent	Q
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Now as beneath the touches of warm rays	T2
Naked the subject of the snow remains	T2
Both of its former colour and its cold	Q
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Thee thus remaining in thy intellect	Q
Will I inform with such a living light	Q
That it shall tremble in its aspect to thee	Q
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Within the heaven of the divine repose	T2
Revolves a body in whose virtue lies	T2
The being of whatever it contains	T2
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The following heaven that has so many eyes	T2
Divides this being by essences diverse	T2
Distinguished from it and by it contained	Q
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The other spheres by various differences	T2
All the distinctions which they have within them	X2
Dispose unto their ends and their effects	T2
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Thus do these organs of the world proceed	Q
As thou perceivest now from grade to grade	Q
Since from above they take and act beneath	Y2
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Observe me well how through this place I come	Z2
Unto the truth thou wishest that hereafter	F
Thou mayst alone know how to keep the ford	Q
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The power and motion of the holy spheres	T2
As from the artisan the hammer's craft	Q
Forth from the blessed motors must proceed	Q
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The heaven which lights so manifold make fair	F
From the Intelligence profound which turns it	Q
The image takes and makes of it a seal	A3
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And even as the soul within your dust	Q
Through members different and accommodated	Q
To faculties diverse expands itself	U
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So likewise this Intelligence diffuses	T2
Its virtue multiplied among the stars	T2
Itself revolving on its unity	Q
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Virtue diverse doth a diverse alloyage	B3
Make with the precious body that it quickens	T2
In which as life in you it is combined	Q
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From the glad nature whence it is derived	Q
The mingled virtue through the body shines	T2
Even as gladness through the living pupil	W
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From this proceeds whate'er from light to light	Q
Appeareth different not from dense and rare	F
This is the formal principle that produces	T2
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According to its goodness dark and bright '	-

Dante Alighieri

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