Sonnet: Love And The Gentle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACCDCCD| Love and the gentle heart are one same thing | A |
| Even as the wise man in his ditty saith | B |
| Each of itself would be such life in death | B |
| As rational soul bereft of reasoning | A |
| 'Tis Nature makes them when she loves a king | A |
| Love is whose palace where he sojourneth | B |
| Is call'd the Heart there draws he quiet breath | B |
| At first with brief or longer slumbering | A |
| Then beauty seen in virtuous womankind | C |
| Will make the eyes desire and through the heart | C |
| Send the desiring of the eyes again | D |
| Where often it abides so long enshrined | C |
| That Love at length out of his sleep will start | C |
| And women feel the same for worthy men | D |
Dante Alighieri
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