Donna Mi Prega Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEFFGGHIGJKLLML NBOPQIJOROSTGUHGUVVV GVROWXX VXRVYNOVVZMVBA2A2B2R B2VXVC2D2XXE2XXVVXCF 2CRVCRR CG2G2XXXBecause a lady asks me I would tell | A |
Of an affect that comes often and is fell | A |
And is so overweening Love by name | B |
E'en its deniers can now hear the truth | C |
I for the nonce to them that know it call | D |
Having no hope at all | D |
that man who is base in heart | E |
Can bear his part of wit | F |
into the light of it | F |
And save they know't aright from nature's source | G |
I have no will to prove Love's course | G |
or say | H |
Where he takes rest who maketh him to be | I |
Or what his active virtu is or what his force | G |
Nay nor his very essence or his mode | J |
What his placation why he is in verb | K |
Or if a man have might | L |
To show him visible to men's sight | L |
In memory's locus taketh he his state Place | M |
Formed there in manner as a mist of light | L |
Upon a dusk that is come from Mars and stays | N |
Love is created hath a sensate name | B |
His modus takes from soul from heart his will | O |
From form seen doth he start that understood | P |
Taketh in latent intellect | Q |
As in a subject ready | I |
place and abode | J |
Yet in that place it ever is unstill | O |
Spreading its rays it tendeth never down | R |
By quality but is its own effect unendingly | O |
Not to delight but in an ardour of thought | S |
That the base likeness of it kindleth not | T |
It is not virtu but perfection's source | G |
Lying within perfection postulate | U |
Not by the reason but tis felt I say | H |
Beyond salvation holdeth its judging force | G |
Maintains intention reason's peer and mate | U |
Poor in discernment being thus weakness' friend | V |
Often his power meeteth with death in the end | V |
Be he withstayed | V |
or from true course | G |
bewrayed | V |
E'en though he meet not with hate or villeiny | R |
Save that perfection fails be it but a little | O |
Nor can man say he hath his life by chance | W |
Or that he hath not stablished seigniory | X |
Or loseth power e'en lost to memory | X |
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He comes to be and is when will's so great | V |
It twists itself from out all natural measure | X |
Leisure s adornment puts he then never on | R |
Never thereafter but moves changing state | V |
Moves changing colour or to laugh or weep | Y |
Or wries the face with fear and little stays | N |
Yea resteth little | O |
yet is found the most | V |
Where folk of worth be host | V |
And his strange property sets sighs to move | Z |
And wills man look into unformed space | M |
Rousing there thirst | V |
that breaketh into flame | B |
None can imagine love | A2 |
that knows not love | A2 |
Love doth not move but draweth all to him | B2 |
Nor doth he turn | R |
for a whim | B2 |
to find delight | V |
Nor to seek out surely | X |
great knowledge or slight | V |
Look drawn from like | C2 |
delight maketh certain in seeming | D2 |
Nor can in covert cower | X |
beauty so near | X |
Not yet wild cruel as darts | E2 |
So hath man craft from fear | X |
in such his desire | X |
To follow a noble spirit | V |
edge that is and point to the dart | V |
Though from her face indiscernible | X |
He caught falleth | C |
plumb the spike of the targe | F2 |
Who well proceedeth form not seeth | C |
following his own emanation | R |
There beyond colour essence set apart | V |
In midst of darkness light light giveth forth | C |
Beyond all falsity worthy of faith alone | R |
That in him solely is compassion born | R |
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Safe may'st thou go my canzon whither thee pleaseth | C |
Thou art so fair attired that every man and each | G2 |
Shall praise thy speech | G2 |
So we have sense or glow with reason's fire | X |
To stand with other | X |
hast thou no desire | X |
Ezra Pound
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